Word: penns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NCAA basketball championships are beginning this weekend, although the fun won't really start until next week when there will be too many games to watch. Sunday afternoon the four games are Rhode Island-Duke, Furman-Indiana, Penn-St. Bonaventure, and Villanove-LaSalle. Consult listings in your newspaper for time and station...
...Penn, the athletic department made the recent cuts without prior students' or coaches' knowledge. Shocked and dismayed by the decimating announcement, Penn's athletic community scrambled to counteract the administration's edicts. The students succeeded in reinstating all sports but hockey; however, if the athletic department had consulted students and coaches beforehand, the negotiations might never have been necessary...
Harvard should learn from the Penn debacle and move to shore up the gaps in the scope and range of student representation in athletic decision-making. The fact that all four undergraduate members of the standing committee are seniors is a structural deficiency of that body...
Athletic director Jack Reardon has thus far done a capable job in dealing with the various factions of Harvard's athletic community. But Reardon's job does not leave him time to accurately discern the diversity of student opinion on athletics at Harvard. Reardon should heed the events at Penn and move beyond the boundaries of his position to establish an innovative system...
...current machinery has never been put to a stern test like the one that faced Penn students and administrators last week. Hopefully, Harvard will not wait for a similar crisis to discover the true mettle of its student-athletic department relationship; rather, it should move now to improve this pattern of interaction before Harvard becomes yet another lesson...