Word: stadiumitis
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...Crimson Crazies fortunate enough to take in Harvard’s 39-14 romp over the Tigers on Saturday—and judging by a quick scan of the stands, there weren’t many of you not dressed in a cheerleader or band uniform—Princeton Stadium, the site of the carnage, was quite a sight to behold, a modern temple to a sport the school isn’t even very good...
Princeton’s sizeable edge extends well beyond its turn-of-this-century football stadium, though. Home of the school’s basketball teams, Jadwin Gymnasium—though certainly not comparable to its counterparts at, say, Duke or North Carolina—easily outstrips Lavietes Pavilion in every respect, including, historically at least, the product on the court. But that’s no reason for Harvard to slap together an arena that wouldn’t pass muster at an upper-end high school program...
...it’s not as if fans are coming down to the games in droves, though they might if seats more inviting than the current concrete slabs at the football stadium were installed. The point is, though, that none of what either of those programs lacks in any way hurts its performance on the field. (Unless you want to consider why anyone would want to play in front of 1,000 ambivalent fans at his home gym, when he could easily play at Jadwin or the Palestra in front of an average of three to six times as many...
...largest endowment of any university, retooling Hilles Library into dance studios no one will use is infinitely more important than providing arenas the administration hopes no one will ever want to fill, and building campus hot spots like Loker Commons will always take precedent over a football stadium with a decent place to tailgate...
...Donnell—their patron saint, after whom their field is named and with whose money their new dugouts are being built—will always take care of them. But Harvard’s other programs? Well, they’ll just have to hope Harvard Stadium doesn’t fall apart and the ice doesn’t take too long to freeze...