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...fire this week for supposedly dubious recruiting practices. According to an article published Sunday in the New York Times, despite the fact that Harvard’s team has won only eight out of 28 games this season, six potential members of its incoming recruiting class are among the nation??€™s 25 most promising prep-players. This sudden shift in the team’s ability to attract a deep talent pool raises questions. The Ivy League announced Tuesday that it will launch an investigation. [See correction below...
CORRECTION: In her column entitled "Are Jocks Necessary?" that ran on March 7, Lucy M. Caldwell incorrectly stated that six potential members of Harvard's incoming recruiting class of basketball players are among the nation??€™s 25 top prep-players. In reality, Harvard's approximately 6-member recruiting class was ranked by some as one of the nation's top 25 classes of recruits. The mistake came as a result of the writer's misreading of an article from The New York Times that ran on March 2, 2008 entitled, "In a New Era at Harvard, New Questions...
...more critical to success than junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt.The team leader in goals and assists, Vaillancourt has been a force on the ice all season long. The Olympian also leads Harvard with a gaudy .141 shot percentage, meaning that she knows how to generate quality shots.Not surprisingly, though, the nation??€™s best team displays excellence up and down the lineup rather than relying on a couple of superstars. Despite the fact that Vaillancourt and Cahow have earned national recognition as finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award that recognizes the top player in NCAA women’s hockey...
When James Shearer arrived at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he was without a job and living on the streets. But while living at the shelter, Shearer cofounded Spare Change News—one of the nation??€™s first street newspapers dedicated to benefit the homeless—and now 16 years later, he is president of the Homeless Empowerment Project...
...It’s all fine and good for the FCC to have dog and pony shows to respond to Silicon Valley lobbyists. But the real business of the FCC—ensuring a widespread diversity of voices on the nation??€™s airways—is under attack. The FCC would better serve the public by staying home and attending to real business of the people...