Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party at Lowell marks a special occasion because the band seldom plays campus gigs. Instead, Green Fuse frequents Boston-area clubs like the Rat and the Channel or New York clubs like the Ridge Street Gallery and CBGB...
Athletes, without a doubt, are often given special privileges and considerations by almost all colleges that can afford it. They are feted, wined and dined by many colleges hoping for oustanding recruits to garner fame and glory, as well as heavy alumni contributions...
...argue by saying that athletic skill is no different in the admission process from a special aptitude for writing or music. But Harvard is an academic institution, and people's skills ought to fit within that intellectual mission. If a student talented enough to come here happens to be an athlete also, fine. But athletes without scholarly abilities add nothing to Harvard's intellectual community and deny a coveted space in the student body to someone who could make better...
...successful--or more importantly perhaps--do not pull in big contributions from wealthy alumni. Thus, one can be put in the position of a star women's volleyball player, or a player of any unpopular sport, who can't get the admissions office to give her special consideration. But the "prizes" don't often get away, if the coach has enough clout. The continued success of the ice hockey and soccer teams are not merely due to the amazingly coincidental joining of athletic talent to intellectual prowess...
...that all athletes at Harvard are not as bright as their peers, or that they don't deserve to be here. Of course, many of the athletes here are very bright and contribute to the intellectual atmosphere of this school. But athletes should not be given a special preference for admission, as they don't add any measure of diversity to what must remain an academic community...