Brains on Ice
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The following article appeared in the October 10 on the Boston Globe Web site.
By Nathaniel Popper
Louis Leblanc became a celebrity this past summer. In June, the
wiry 18-year-old was the first draft pick of his hometown team, the
Montreal Canadiens, a franchise with no rival in the hockey-mad
province of Quebec. All of a sudden, the soft-spoken son of a
chemist was an object of obsession for newspapers and fans.
“It’s pretty crazy. You’re in a restaurant, and
people want pictures and autographs,” Leblanc said late in
the summer.
In August, Leblanc moved south to attend Harvard, where he’s
living in a freshman dorm, studying, and playing his first season
with the college hockey team (the Canadiens can wait). Leblanc
intends to major in economics and has enrolled in the freshman
survey course with professor Gregory Mankiw, onetime chairman of
President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. When
I met with Leblanc during his first week at school, he was wearing
mesh shorts and a Team Canada T-shirt and was coming from a class
on gender and performance. “It’s a class on how people
react and perform, I guess,” he said. “A lot of
athletes take it.”
Complete article can be accessed via the Globe Web site by clicking here.
