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It’s simply not reasonable to expect either recruited athletes or their non-athlete classmates to pretend they don’t know about the very different ways they arrived at Harvard. If Lewis wants these two groups to respect each other, he must reckon with the College’s own role in fostering, through its parallel admissions tracks, a climate in which athletes and non-athletes often do not think of one another as genuine peers. It is those admissions practices, far more than any lingering fondness for 19th-century British notions about amateurism, which perpetuate...
...based on the judgement of elected representatives, not administrators. This position is unnecessarily stubborn; what the UC might give up in the power to vet student groups for non-discrimination, it would gain in consistency and coherence. When CCL approves a student group, it considers its membership policies with respect to the College’s non-discrimination policy and federal law, which makes exceptions for single-sex singing groups, for example. Whatever self-satisfaction the UC gains from being unreasonably strict in its non-discrimination policy cannot possibly justify the confusion and irritation created by the mixed signals student...
...sent an e-mail to the class and asked how many were thinking of walking out,” he said. “Student participation is a good thing and I encourage it. This is an important national movement and I have a lot of respect for the organizers and the groups involved...
...think the most important thing is to be respected by the press corps," Snow replied. "As you know, being chummy is one thing, but if I'm chummy and they're not getting information or they're getting a quality of information that they don't think is worthwhile, it's not going to do you any good. So the idea, I think, is to do a competent job in terms of getting information to the press corps so that they respect you. You never lie. You never try to shave the truth. But on the other hand...
...What we should be looking at are ways we can engage with them - first of all by giving them some sense of respect, recognizing them for what they are, which is a considerable power in the region. I would probe to see if there were any areas of common interest. We lost opportunities at the beginning of the Afghan war to work with them on definitions of terrorism and trying to figure out how to get some common lines on a variety of diplomatic issues...