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...numbers have certainly improved since, but Jim Larimore, then the dean of Dartmouth College and currently the dean of students at Swarthmore, noted that the problem was unique to sports. It also derived, in large part, from the unique rural setting and reputation of a university in Hanover...
...problem, as I see it, is that even in professional baseball, the African-American kid is not playing as much,” Walsh says. “I don’t go out recruiting saying we need to bring in minority kids. I liked Andrew Prince because he can hit the ball out of the yard and he’s a great...
Harvard’s head baseball coach Joe Walsh follows the same philosophy. But for him, the problem is that his sport cannot even begin to approach football in terms of racial diversity on the national level...
...unofficial estimates, less than 8 percent of the more than 80 track athletes at Harvard—men and women combined—are currently African-American. That percentage places Harvard at the bottom of the Ivy League, and it presents rookie head coach Jason Saretsky with an immediate problem...
Patrick R. Griffin ’05, once a baseball player under Walsh, now serves as the assistant director of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI). Part of the solution to rectifying the scholarship problem, he says, is changing public perceptions about the climate of the school. Students in general have balked at Harvard based on name and reputation alone, but “in the last 30 years, there’s really been a revolution in what a typical group of Harvard student looks like...