Post by DuddingtonHoya on Feb 8, 2005 10:28:02 GMT -5
The Hoya published this article today about one student being forced to choose education v athletics.
www.thehoya.com/sports/020805/sports4.cfm
Everything we do at Georgetown is part of our educational experience — including Gelblum’s fellowship opportunity. Bausch was wrong to ask her to choose between education and athletics. There’s a reason the student comes first in student-athlete.
“The Georgetown student-athlete experience should be about the whole person. No one came just for tennis to Georgetown,” Gelblum said. “When recruits come to Georgetown, Rich [Bausch] only discourages them by telling them how tennis is not a big deal here and the Athletic Department doesn’t care about it. So we get very well-rounded people but all of a sudden, it’s like … you are an athlete above being a person or a student.”
www.thehoya.com/sports/020805/sports4.cfm
Everything we do at Georgetown is part of our educational experience — including Gelblum’s fellowship opportunity. Bausch was wrong to ask her to choose between education and athletics. There’s a reason the student comes first in student-athlete.
“The Georgetown student-athlete experience should be about the whole person. No one came just for tennis to Georgetown,” Gelblum said. “When recruits come to Georgetown, Rich [Bausch] only discourages them by telling them how tennis is not a big deal here and the Athletic Department doesn’t care about it. So we get very well-rounded people but all of a sudden, it’s like … you are an athlete above being a person or a student.”
