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Subject: Re: Why Does Harvard Have A Women's Rugby Team?

Author:
observer

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Date Posted: 08:07:17 01/22/25 Wed
In reply to: An Observer 's message, "Why Does Harvard Have A Women's Rugby Team?" on 01:14:44 01/22/25 Wed

It's not Rugby.

It's Field Hockey. Lacrosse. Swimming. Sailing. Skiing. Cross Country. Golf. Tennis. Squash. Fencing.

The irony is that for some of those, it helps Asian and Asian-American applicants as much as, if not more than, whites.

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M3
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Date Posted: 08:24:49 01/22/25 Wed

What is the point of this ridiculous post?

To begin with women's varsity rugby in the IL gets between 3 to 7 slots depending on the school.

Many of these recruited athletes happen to be international students or persons of color

Recruited athletes in the Ivy League must be a certain race to satisfy Mr Gladwell?

Should these rules be extended to students who are going to be in the orchestra/acapella groups/drama group/potential editors of campus magazines and newspapers?

Please stop the social engineering

Mr Gladwell and his cronies can get bent.

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Author: observer [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:43:45 01/22/25 Wed The point is that Gladwell is saying that the schools are doing the social engineering, not him. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: M3 [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 10:11:38 01/22/25 Wed No the schools are not social engineering-they are fielding athletic teams They are fielding the teams because they choose to No explanation is needed BTW the teams are/were not created to allow more students of a certain demographic to attend the schools [ Post a Reply to This Message ]