"Cheating case entangles athletes at Harvard; Basketball star leaving, aims for eligibility later" by Mary Carmichael and Amalie Benjamin |
Globe Staff, September 12, 2012
Harvard University basketball star
Kyle Casey is voluntarily withdrawing from school for the year and will
miss the entire season because he is one of about 125 students suspected
of cheating on a take-home final exam, according to a person with
direct knowledge of Casey’s decision.
Casey, a senior cocaptain and the team’s leading scorer, is not the
only prominent athlete to be touched by the cheating scandal. Fellow
cocaptain Brandyn Curry is also expected to leave, according to SI.com.
The players are not necessarily withdrawing because they are guilty.
They are making a strategic decision, leaving before playing any games
to ensure that they will have NCAA eligibility next year. If they were
to stay and then be found guilty, they could be kicked out midseason,
costing a full year of eligibility.
Other Harvard athletes who took last spring’s “Introduction to
Congress” course — widely reputed to be an easy class compatible with
intense sports schedules — are probably weighing the same scenarios.
As many as half of the 125 students now under scrutiny play varsity
sports, according to a student athlete who is implicated, and who said
he was basing his estimate on information from his resident dean.
“All the coaches are talking to their teams about it,” he told the Globe....
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Related: Where Mitt Romney Learned Racism
Did he also learn how to cheat there?
Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Harvard Hoops
That was last year.
UPDATE:
"Harvard plans new arena, refurbished stadium, hotel" by Matt Rocheleau and Katherine Landergan |
Globe Correspondents, October 13, 2012
Harvard Magazine reported that those three projects would be
completed between 2017 and 2022 and that the addition to the school’s
historic football stadium would house a press box, club seating, an
athletics office, and athletic facilities. Harvard Stadium opened in
1903.
The basketball arena would be 60,000 square feet inside a four- to
nine-story-tall building that would also include 40,000 square feet for
mixed use and offices, the magazine reported. The hotel would include
150 to 250 rooms in a building six to nine stories tall, according to
the magazine.
Ray Mellone, a Harvard-Allston Task Force member, said university
officials are proposing to build the “first-class” basketball arena in
the area of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. It would hold
approximately 2,700 people and would replace the school’s smaller,
outdated venue.
The current basketball venue, the Ray Lavietes Pavilion, has a
seating capacity of 2,195 and is located on North Harvard Street. The
Pavilion was built in 1926 and is among the oldest basketball arenas in
the country. The new basketball plan comes a year after Harvard’s men’s
basketball team made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since
1946.
Two other projects call for renovating the Soldiers Field Park
housing complex and building a new mixed-use development. Those are also
planned for completion between 2017 and 2022, the magazine said.
Another project would build new business school faculty and
administrative offices. The remaining projects would replace business
school buildings Kresge Hall and Burden Hall and renovate Baker Hall.
The university magazine reported that those projects would be completed between 2014 and 2020.
Two other Harvard development projects, a health and life sciences
center and a mixed-use complex in Barry’s Corner, are already being
planned and reviewed separately.
Mellone said that the Harvard Allston Task Force — composed of
residents and local civic leaders in the neighborhood — plans to address
any concerns with the plans moving forward. “With good faith we are
going to look at the issues and tell them what we think,” he said. “It’s
quite a blend of issues that have to be resolved.”
City redevelopment authority officials declined to comment on the
specifics of the plan because it has not yet been filed. The plan will
go through a public review process....
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