NYT wants us to feel sorry for dumb Harvard student
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Date: January 28th, 2012 11:28 PM Author: Sadistic School
because she can only play basketball for 3 years, instead of 4 ... because she REPEATED a grade in high school. LMFAO. This girl is the luckiest bitch in the world...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/opinion/nocera-et-tu-harvard.html?scp=1&sq=harvard%20et%20tu&st=cse
Et Tu, Harvard?
By JOE NOCERA
If the worst thing that ever happens to Temi Fagbenle is that she gets to play college basketball for only three seasons instead of four, she’ll have lived a blessed life. No question, the wrong being perpetrated on this 6-foot-4 Harvard freshman pales compared with some of the injustices in college sports that I’ve been recounting lately.
Still, Fagbenle’s ordeal is worth telling for three reasons. It illustrates the sheer pettiness of the N.C.A.A. It shows that the N.C.A.A. won’t rectify even an obvious mistake to help an athlete. Saddest of all, it shows that even mighty Harvard won’t stand up to the N.C.A.A. Originally intended to help universities police their athletic teams, the N.C.A.A. has become higher education’s Frankenstein, terrifying its overseers.
Let me tell you a little bit about Temi. Yes, she’s 6-foot-4 and a terrific basketball player, but she’s a lot more than that. Born to Nigerian parents — her father is a prominent journalist — she moved with her large family to London as a girl. When she was 15, her parents enrolled her as a junior in Blair Academy, a New Jersey prep school, hoping the education she got there would lead her to the Ivy League. The Fagbenles had their hearts set on Harvard.
Temi struggled her first year, so much so that she and her parents decided that she should repeat her junior year to better her chances of getting into Harvard. By the time she graduated, she had won letters in track and tennis as well as basketball, had starred in the school play, had improved her grades enough to be accepted at Harvard, and had become one of the most popular students at Blair. Along the way, she turned down scholarship offers from big-time basketball schools like Duke.
If you are wondering how this outstanding high school career could have led to Temi’s being ruled ineligible to play as a freshman, you’re not alone. Her mistake, if you can call it that, was to take an exam, the General Certificate of Secondary Education, required of all British students when they are around 15. Inexplicably — and incorrectly — the N.C.A.A. says that the exam marks a British student’s graduation from high school. Under its rules, a British high school graduate must enroll in college within two years of taking the G.C.S.E. Because Temi repeated her junior year, it took her three years.
The sheer idiocy of this rule boggles the mind. As Harvard pointed out in a letter to the N.C.A.A., if she had stayed in London until she finished high school, she could have played. If she had started as a freshman in an American high school and repeated a grade, she could have played. But because she repeated a grade after coming to the United States, she is ineligible. It not only seems unfair, it seems discriminatory.
Behind the scenes, Harvard worked to get the N.C.A.A. to reverse its decision, making four separate appeals. All were denied. With Harvard’s help, Temi retained a lawyer, who gave serious thought to trying to get a restraining order against the N.C.A.A., on the grounds that the rule violates state antidiscrimination laws. But, in the end, Temi decided not to sue, to Harvard’s palpable relief. After all, if Temi began playing and then ultimately lost the case, the women’s basketball team would have to forfeit the games in which she had played. Sotto voce, officials also expressed fears that the N.C.A.A. might retaliate in other ways.
Despite its behind-the-scenes efforts, Harvard has never once said publicly that the rule is wrong and that Temi is being unfairly punished. On the contrary, in an e-mailed statement, Bob Scalise, the Harvard athletic director, said, “We at Harvard are fully committed to following all N.C.A.A. rules and guidelines.” Even, apparently, when those rules are wrong and unjust.
And, I might add, deeply hurtful. “When someone has a tremendous talent, you are taking away a fundamental part of their identity,” says Temi’s lawyer, Beth Reilly. “And there is a stigma in being declared ineligible, an implication that you have done something wrong. You have a label attached that the whole world sees.”
I understand why a school like the University of Connecticut won’t stand up to the N.C.A.A. There is nothing bigger in the state of Connecticut than UConn basketball. If it were to start playing Ryan Boatright, the suspended point guard whose mother is the subject of an N.C.A.A. witch hunt, it would risk not only forfeiting games, but missing the N.C.A.A. championship tournament. The price is too high.
But I would have thought that Harvard was made of sterner stuff. Harvard claims to have values that transcend wins and losses. Harvard has often been a leader in changing how universities act. So long as schools continue to cower in the face of N.C.A.A. abuses, those abuses will continue.
The Temi Fagbenle case was a perfect opportunity for Harvard to stand up for what’s right. Maybe next time.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19856051) |
Date: January 28th, 2012 11:36 PM Author: bat shit crazy big cuckoldry
Joseph "Joe" Nocera (born May 6, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island)[1] is an American business journalist and author. He became a business columnist for The New York Times in April 2005. In March 2011, Nocera became a regular opinion columnist for The Times' Op-Ed page, writing on Tuesdays and Saturdays.[2] Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Nocera worked at Fortune from 1995 to 2005, in a variety of positions, finally as editorial director. Nocera was the "Profit Motive" columnist at GQ from 1990 to 1995, and wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990.
In the 1980s, Nocera was an editor at Newsweek; an executive editor of New England Monthly; and a senior editor at Texas Monthly. In the late 1970s he was an editor at The Washington Monthly.
Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974, and lives in New York City.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19856107) |
Date: January 28th, 2012 11:49 PM Author: fishy thriller nowag
ITT: a slew of bitter (likely Asian or Jew) Harvard REJECTS.
Get over it, guys.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19856189) |
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Date: January 29th, 2012 12:49 AM Author: fishy thriller nowag
I'll take that as a yes.
And anyway, why would I be mad? I have everything you ever dreamed of.
For the sake of your Asian brethren, I'll tip an extra 10% on my next seamless order of general tso's chicken (by the way, why can't you fucks comprehend 'white-meat only'?).
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19856519)
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Date: January 29th, 2012 1:27 AM Author: fishy thriller nowag
jesus. 'monied elites' and 'athletes' have stats similar or worse than the dark skinned fellows you so envy. and they're a much larger % of the admits.
that you couldn't draw this logical conclusion from my post has me questioning whether you even made it to tufts.
'monied elites' or athletes don't contribute as much to HYP's prestige as you'd believe. but I don't expect you to understand that, so whatever.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19856625) |
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Date: January 29th, 2012 11:30 PM Author: 180 rambunctious headpube stage
TIMFCR
Children of immigrants from Africa have the highest educational attainment of any immigrant group. In case you were wondering, yes, they even beat Asians.
Racists, u mad?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19862381) |
Date: January 29th, 2012 9:49 AM Author: wonderful mewling becky
I don't feel sorry for her at all.
But her situation does highlight another example of the NCAA's sheer stupidity quite well.
Same with that Todd O'Brien kid at UAB.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1860379&forum_id=2#19857269) |
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