Word: ncaas
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Once while I was dean of the College, Harvard apologized to the NCAA because a student parked overnight at the Dillon Field House. A nordic skier had left his old minivan at Soldiers Field so he could ferry his team to practice early the next morning...
Harvard’s transgression? It had given the athlete a benefit of tangible value (one night’s parking in a deserted lot) not provided to other students. Had the student not repaid us, the NCAA could have declared him a professional...
Sometimes, Harvard varsity sports just seem like one big contradiction to me.Harvard boasts the most NCAA Division I teams of any college, and yet, because of Ivy League standards, it offers zero athletic scholarships. It has won a number of NCAA championships—just take a look at the historic run the fencing team made this year—but seems to be mired in the middle of the national pack in many of the major sports.And finally, the school recruits some of the nation’s top athletes, but until they make an impact on the field...
...people I know, equally capable of solving Ec 10 p-sets and romantic problems. My blockmate, Samir, is a brilliant mathematician and will probably run the World Bank someday—that is, if he’s not an ESPN commentator. I never would have become interested in NCAA sports or understood divisibility rules without him. My uberhip chemisty-concentrating music editor, Fritz, lectures me with equal expertise on everything from Chinese linguistics to Fermi’s law to the merits of the new Ghostface Killah album. Truth be told, Jill is probably just a little too preppy...
After speeding the Crimson team to its first ever NCAA National Fencing Championship, Harvard fencers Emily Cross and Benji Ungar have proved their worth again, beating professional competitors to take home a medal each at the World Junior Fencing Championship in Taebacek City, South Korea. Cross was awarded a second consecutive gold medal in Women’s Foil, rising from a tenth-place ranking after the preliminaries to take an easy 15-5 victory over Arianna Errigo of Italy in the finals. Ungar, seeded ninth after the preliminaries, defeated Ciprian Lapuste of Romania 15-9 to advance...