August 10, 2001

In Princeton Seminar, Students Look Into College Sports and Amateur Ideal

Sports and athletes get plenty of attention on college campuses, but not much of it is academic. At Princeton University, an unlikely duo is applying academic rigor to the games people play, in a freshman seminar called "Values, the Educational Experience, and Intercollegiate Athletics." Harold A. Feiveson, a senior research scientist who usually focuses on nuclear disarmament, describes himself as a college-sports kibitzer. His friend Jeffrey H. Orleans brings a more traditional sports

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