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...Okerman says he is glad Harvard is not pursuing the policy of recruiting hand-picked varsity athletes and cutting back sharply on J.V. programs, as some lvy League schools have done. "When you do that, sports becomes too much like a business," he says...
Brian Shea, a senior who played freshman soccer, agrees with Okerman that the J.V. programs should be maintained...
...Bill Okerman is dissatisfied with the conditions under which he and other members of the track team must practice and compete...
Since the collapse of the Farrell Bubble in a windstorm in December 1973, the track team has been forced to spend the indoor season in small, dusty Briggs Cage. Okerman notes that it is especially important for a New England school to have a good indoor facility because the indoor season here lasts from November to the end of March...
...Bubble, which had a modern tartan track, was one of the best indoor facilities in New England. Okerman says it motivated Harvard trackmen to attend practices regularly throughout the winter months. But "nobody wants to come down to Briggs to work out," he says. In fact, Okerman claims some of the injuries suffered by runners on the track team this winter may have been caused by the poor quality of the dirt track in Briggs Cage...