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...Dingman said that before the College could make more space for recreational athletics in the MAC, it would have to find a new option for the three intercollegiate sports that now practice there...
ANALYSIS: This year the Leopards decided to experiment with the option in order to take advantage of its positions of strength. That’s a good move for a team whose leading passer coming into the season had a total of one completion in his college career and whose leading receiver and leading rusher are the same person...
...Harvard should be well-versed in stopping the run and should be able to match, if not surpass, the Hoyas’ effort. And the Crimson won’t have to worry about the pass, since the Leopards, themselves, have shut that dimension down by committing to the option...
Harvard Professor of Economics David I. Laibson ’88, who has done extensive research on the effects of default options on human behavior, said that recent studies of 401(k) retirement plans have found that about 90 percent of employees invest money in the plan when it is the default option, while only 30 percent enroll when it requires an active choice...
...effect is that the default has an implicit message that this is the recommended option,” Laibson said. “The other effect is that it is harder to unravel the default than to simply accept...