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...addition to the intensification of practice and game schedules, Lewis also says the increasingly professionalized recruiting process often leaves athletes overly beholden to their coaches, who have become more and more active in deciding their fate in the admissions process as the “arms race?? has become more competitive...
...older brother was a “Sputnik child”—a science buff pushed into the field by the 1950s space race??who attended college at MIT. Franken expected to follow suit and enter the science field...
...only did Harvard win all 17 of its head-to-head races, it won them convincingly. In 15 of 17 races, Harvard had its top two boats place 1-2 out of the six boats in the race??each school having three boats. Since the sum of the places determines a team score for the race, and the low score wins, any 1-2 finish guarantees a team victory regardless of the third boat’s finish...
Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, who decided to leave Harvard for Princeton this year, has written extensively on race. In the essay “Illusions of Race?? from the collection In My Father’s House, Appiah discusses the racial theories of another famous Harvard academic, W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. After picking apart Du Bois’ theory and showing the racism that underlies it, Appiah states “the truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that...
...many people believe that “race?? is still important, and use the word interchangeably with more precise words like ethnicity or culture. For those reasons, race will not soon fade away from campus debate. At the same time, ethnicity and culture are critical aspects of diversity—both at Harvard and nationwide. But as rates of interracial marriage increase and the last racial barriers in American society are being broken, when race-based accusations are made, they must be given stricter scrutiny...