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Forum, Feb. 16: Dartmouth should drop Division I sports
Published: 2/15/2021 10:00:04 PM
Modified: 2/15/2021 10:00:03 PM
Dartmouth should drop Division I sports
Dartmouth College is a famed academic institution, one of the best. So it is odd and disturbing that much of the publicity about Dartmouth revolves around sports rather than academics.
Three recent cases in point:
■ The ruckus over dropping five Division I varsity teams, then reinstating them, including the Forum letter by Dick Bates (“Faculty, Hanlon are responsible for Dartmouth sports cut debacle,” Feb. 7) supporting such sports and criticizing faculty for “their snobbish attitude toward athletics.”
■ The recent article describing the extraordinary and certainly very expensive process by which coaches “recruit” so-called “student-athletes” (“Ivy recruiting operations shift amid pandemic,” Feb. 5), which smacks of professional, profit-seeking entities like the Patriots and Red Sox.