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...years is about 70 percent. Even if this rate of attrition may be different in other sports, losing recruits once they are already on campus is an issue that resonates across the entire athletic department. Head softball coach Jenny Allard writes in an e-mail to The Crimson that students?? reasons for leaving vary: “Some students want the flexibility in their schedules to pursue other opportunities at Harvard.” Others are injured. Some, like Witt, cannot accustom themselves to the fact that they are putting in a Division I level of commitment while...
...perhaps precisely at these moments, when students?? expectations are dashed by long hours on the bench and problem sets on rides back from away games, that Harvard’s refusal of athletic scholarships becomes most beneficial. The attitudes behind such policies may also be increasingly necessary. In a 2006 study, sixty-two percent of Division I student-athletes reported viewing themselves more as athletes than students, despite the NCAA’s official stance that “[i]ntercollegiate athletics programs shall be maintained as a vital component of the educational program...
...Kirkland library supervisor Joshua C. Feblowitz ’09. Before the University began mandating sweeping budget cuts across its constituent schools, the central library system paid these students, but now, the Houses’ budgets foot the bill, Rone said. She said this has forced her to reduce students?? hours and has prevented her from raising their pay. The Kirkland library has also had to slash 20 hours of service a week, according to Rone, and is now closed on Fridays. The cutbacks have made Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley “angry...
...having enough courses,” said Robert G. Doyle, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who is also a freshman academic advisor. “But I think the program received a lot of course recommendations just before the deadline because professors are just like students??always finishing at the last minute...
With all due respect, I spent 40 years interacting with these so-called students??an aspect of the university I have never understood. Now, in my golden years, I ask nothing more than to relax without the incessant chatter of young ’uns, brimming with energy for no explicable reason. They will arrive, seeking pleasure on a Saturday night, and might even take sherry to the point of wooziness: for shame! They will then slur their speech and stumble about in an unrefined manner. An utter disgrace to this university! These troublemakers remain out until...