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...before—were people who might stop playing the sport of field hockey altogether as soon as their time at Harvard was through.Yet as the sun kept shining, in a symbolic, oddly cinematic sort of way, it turned out that Caples wasn’t done. She had youth and a core to build on, she declared. New people had been baptized by fire; last year’s freshmen like Julie Lane and Gretchen Fuller improved by leaps and bounds on the offensive end. Juniors Beth and Jane Sackovich were each given All-Ivy recognition. They, even...
...When we cheer at home,” she says, “a lot of the Boston inner-city youth programs come, and all the little girls and all the little boys love us to death and make us feel like we’re rock stars. They yell our names out all day long, and at the end they run down and have us autograph their magazines...
...else they study over there—learning is difficult when you’re surrounded by urban wasteland. No one can study to the best of his abilities when he must fear for his life whenever he ventures out of his dorm. And who can fault sexually frustrated youth for being distracted by the plethora of five-dollar prostitutes who roam the city of New Haven (Might we suggest a stronger work study program to help keep Yalies strapped for cash from taking to the streets...
...noted the late president’s recognition of youth contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and to the war on poverty and suggested that “he would have understood the importance of young people in ending the war in Vietnam...
...view the need for a draft as a solution only to immediate problems? What about the more important question of whether the U.S. should require government service of all our youth? Since the end of the draft in 1973, the word duty has been almost totally erased from the American lexicon. That is a real issue. Bringing back the draft might mean we would also face the inequities rampant during the Vietnam conflict, such as deferments of the privileged and politically connected. That type of draft system is a bad idea. We need a whole new mandatory national-service program...