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...every Division I athletic conference but the Ivy League, high school senior athletes sign what amounts to a written contract, known as the NCAA letter of intent, to attend a college or university and receive an athletic scholarship. On signing day, which falls on the first Wednesday in February, the recruiting process ends...
...letter of Ivy intent” with a common date. By placing the emphasis on the word Ivy, the inherent message would be clear and forceful: athletes who signed it would be intent on pursuing an excellent education while playing their sport for passion, not for a scholarship. By instituting an Ivy signing date, players would be free to visit several schools and collect offers before making a final decision. This would reduce the pressure on athletes to make a quid pro quo verbal commitment to a coach, alleviate the amount of lying from all parties...
Prefrosh, welcome to Harvard. You have been blessed with the opportunity to join our great tradition of scholarship here in Cambridge. Now please stay out of our hair until September. You don’t go to Harvard yet. I know I sound harsh, but the frustration is warranted. Just the other day, a guy from the Harvard Class of 2010 “friended” me on Facebook. I scoured his profile to find any connection we might have. Same hometown? No, he’s from someplace in New Jersey; I’m from Phoenix. Same...
HASA also hopes to increase its fundraising efforts beyond the Class of 1981. Andrew T. Pugh ’81, who is also on the fund’s steering committee and a former Crimson editor, said he plans on urging the Class of 1982 to donate to the scholarship fund. Pugh, whose wife graduated in 1982, will also be involved in planning HASA’s possible expansion to her class’s 25th reunion...
...teach at Yale Law School beginning this fall.Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken has garnered praise for both her teaching ability—she was the first junior professor to win the prestigious Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence—as well as her scholarship on voting law, diversity, and the role of groups in the democratic process. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan Law School, Gerken, who is currently on a visiting professorship at Yale, said that her decision to leave Harvard was based on personal reasons...