Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year's fencing captain is not merely the athletic stereotype of a fighter. He does not just "give it all he's got," and squeeze every last drop of mindless, animalistic energy from his body. Gene Vastola is far more subtle than that. His sport, "physical chess," as he calls it, requires that he be far more subtle than that...
Vastola has a temperament that seems perfectly suited to fencing. Self-assured, with a calm exterior that hides a fiercely competitive interior, he possesses both the poise and the intensity which are necessary ingredients of success in this demanding sport...
Vastola's performance and approach to the game have been an inspiration to the rest of the squad. Coach Zivkovic gives Vastola enormous credit. "In each sport the captain is the right-hand man of the coach. Gino is such a captain that I feel like I am his right arm instead of he mine. He is by far the best captain I've met in the U.S. and I've been involved in intercollegiate fencing for 20 years...
...disturbed at the headline on the Caryn Curry profile, "Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man'". This headline does nothing but reinforce the double standard and sexism that prevails on the subject of women's sports. When someone tells a woman athlete, like Caryn, that she does her sport like a man, it is taken as a compliment not because women are trying to emulate men but because playing like a man is synonymous with playing well. The way our society exists today, to be a good female athlete is to deny the mold that has encompassed women for years...
...squad, currently funded as a club sport, has amassed a 3-1 record this season in New England Collegiate Volleyball League competition. Harvard's next major challenge will come April 1, when the team travels to the University of Pennsylvania for the Ivy Tournament...