Word: recruitable
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...private institution, Harvard’s athletic policies are ultimately its own business. That means that if the College decides to continue to recruit top-notch athletes for its Division One teams, then so be it. But Harvard must also accept the consequences of that policy. One of the most obvious of these consequences is that the two admissions tracks into Harvard—one for athletes and one for everyone else—institutionalize the disconnect between athletes and non-athletes that former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 laments. Lewis holds students...
...focusing on political groups on campus. In their first major project this weekend, the CPS organized a Political Activities Fair for prefrosh that brought 41 groups together in the Winthrop JCR to make their pitch to freshmen. In bringing these groups together, the fair allowed groups to not only recruit for their individual organizations, but to collectively make the case to prefrosh for involvement in the Harvard political community as a whole...
...racer of the 1940s and '50s and the first woman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame; in Anderson, S.C. In 1946 her reputation as a teenage daredevil in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., led Bill France, who co-founded NASCAR the next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born to be wild," she said...
...problems stem from the fact that likely letters are generated based on a spoken commitment exchanged by coaches and athletes. Though the majority of Ivy recruits keep their word, some players and parents make multiple verbal commitments, often because coaches pressure them to make a decision prematurely. This pressure leads to all sorts of dirty gamesmanship between schools. For instance, some coaches offer likely letters with an arbitrary deadline in order to force a decision from an athlete or only if a player cancels an official visit or withdraws an application to another school. Other coaches ignore verbal commitments altogether...
Because most recruits and their parents enter the process ignorant of the Ivy system, they are vulnerable to its pitfalls. Last year, a recruit was assured by a Dartmouth coach that his early decision application looked “very good” and told that he should turn down an offer from Notre Dame. “Tell them you have committed to Dartmouth,” the coach advised in early October. In December, Dartmouth sent a rejection letter. Stunned, the player’s family sought an explanation from admissions and the coach. Each party blamed...