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This research should also be a wake-up call for Harvard’s administrators. There are no real outlets or motivators for students to get active, especially toward the end of semesters when intramurals have ended. There are gym classes, but only those who are very self-motivated attend those. In many liberal arts colleges across the nation, there is a physical educational requirement. Although Harvard does not necessarily need to add such a requirement, it might be time to offer outlets for exercise, such creating and facilitating student run groups, keeping gyms open later, and longer intramural periods...
...billion dollars a year to broadcast NFL games. With millions of dollars on the line for each game, teams, television networks, and NFL executives give their best effort to produce the best football possible. The officiating should be no exception. If referees were full-time, they could watch film, attend practices, and devote their energies exclusively to football, which would minimize bad calls and misrulings...
...course, one might ask what specific activities a full-time referee could engage in that a part-time referee could not. For one, in addition to watching film and attending meetings with other referees, full-time referees would have the time to attend practices of teams other than those that they would be officiating over the course of a week. This would allow officials to watch and participate in game-speed situations more than once a week. Professional football coach and long time advocate of the full-time referee, Bud Grant writes, in Always on Sunday, “They...
...example, students who expressed interest in the arts received a letter about artistic opportunities at the university, and students who attend Jewish day schools were sent a letter from the school’s Hillel...
...Gate at the Stairs” chronicles a year in the life of Tassie Keltjin, the 20-year-old daughter of a potato farmer who has left her hometown of Dellacrosse, Illinois, to attend college in Troy, a nearby university town. The novel starts in 2001, a few months after September 11, and focuses loosely on Tassie’s experiences working as a nanny to Sarah and Edward, a pair of well-meaning, well-to-do liberals who take a sanctimonious and labored approach to parenting their adopted mixed-race toddler...