The Hockey Difficulty

It would be churlish not to rejoice in the ECAC decision to allow Eugene Kinasewich to play hockey in intercollegiate competition this year. But it must nonetheless be strongly repeated that by choosing to treat the case on Harvard's terms, as an individual and not general phenomenon, the Association has foolishly evaded a real responsibility to define general policy toward players in his position. This was a chance badly missed; and it should be missed again.