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Best known for her role as River Phoenix's mistreated girlfriend in the 1986 comedy A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, the Mower Hall resident has been called one of Hollywood's brightest and busiest new stars...
...philosophy here is that athletes are like any other student," Athletic Director Jack P. Reardon '54 says. "The University resources are the ones that should be used. If someone has a problem they should go to the Bureau of Study Council like everyone else...
Although the statistics prove otherwise, many Harvard students still refuse to believe that athletes are as academically able as their non-athletic peers. As members of varsity teams and as representatives to Atheletic Director Reardon's Undergraduate Advisory Committee on Athletics, we repeatedly hear of instances in which Harvard's academic standards are not compromised for any applicant's athletic skills. The Admissions Committee strives for diversity in excellence in the candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity...
...Reardon said that there are one or two integrated fraternities, but Cowles said he had not heard of them. Most segregation, he said, is voluntary. "There have been no moves to have [integrated fraternities], but no moves not to. Black students don't come through white rush. They are more than welcome to come, but it seems as if most people choose fraternities because of what they have in common with the members...
...operated, unfortunately, in two parallel lines of leadership," one Black, and one white, said Reardon. "Now they are converging and the leaderships are coming together...