Word: shulman
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...James L. Shulman, author of The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values, showed a series of statistics to reaffirm his book’s claim that athletes have a significant admissions advantage...
...evidence at Harvard and beyond suggests that, in general, they do not. The prevalence of all-athlete blocking groups indicates a strong tendency for athletes to self-segregate, which is partly understandable given the difficult social climate which Harvard students face. But a recent book by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen, The Game of Life, examines the self-segregation of athletes as a larger trend, among other negative impacts that athletics can have on academic communities...
...nothing is done, Shulman and Bowen’s outlook for the future is dire...
...athletic culture” that James Bowen and William Shulman deride in the recently published book The Game of Life is a priceless asset that makes Harvard the nation’s best university. They argue that because college athletics have become commercialized, student-athletes nowadays spoil their education by focusing on athletic success, to the detriment of their education and that of their peers...
...with all due respect to Bowen, Shulman and Josefowitz, the relationships I have enjoyed in college with student-athletes have proven to me that they are not the ones responsible for degrading the “Harvard experience.” Rather, it is those selfish individuals among us who have never played sports, who do not understand the meaning of putting the team before the self, who barge through life prioritizing their individual agendas over everyone else’s, who make it difficult for the rest of us to play nice with others when we step into...