Word: genderization
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...learned pretty early on what got play in the Crimson sports pages. Big crowds meant big coverage. And the correlation between gender and crowds was a given...
...clear that certain sports don't have what it takes to attract spectators. Whatever vital quality it is that they lack, it tends to be gender-blind. No matter how many Eastern titles the men's swimming team wins, the squad's season crowd total probably wouldn't fill Bright Center...
...when it comes to the major spectator sports--football, hockey and, to a lesser extent, basketball and baseball--gender is most definitely a factor in attendance patterns. In all of the above sports, except for football, Harvard features both women's and men's squads. The men's teams get the crowds and the coverage, the women's teams get a sprinkling of dedicated fans--roommates, parents, friends...
...some of the men's hockey players are destined for the pros, whereas the same can't be said of the women. But every team plays teams of comparable abilities, and I've never noticed the level of competition to vary markedly from one sport to another, or one gender to another. I don't think that hard-fought, one-goal victory counts more if more people are watching...
...fray to accuse the reformers of "trashing Plato and Shakespeare." Six weeks ago, in a deft compromise, Stanford's faculty senate voted to pare the required list to six classics plus at least one non-European work chosen by the individual professor with "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...