Experts: Debacle over Dartmouth athletic cuts was avoidable
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Modified: 2/5/2021 9:39:27 PM
HANOVER When Dartmouth College announced last week that it was reinstating five varsity sports it had dropped during July budget cuts, it explained the reversal by saying data used to make the decision “may not have been complete.”
Dartmouth athletes happy to have sports restored but critical of process
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Modified: 2/3/2021 10:45:22 PM
HANOVER Stas Van Genderen’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing with notifications on Friday morning. Lying in his bed, sore from skiing the day before, he finally picked up an incoming phone call from his mom.
“My phone is just blowing up, million text messages,” recalled Van Genderen, a senior on the Dartmouth College swimming and diving team. “So my mom says, ‘We got the team back!’ And I just say, ‘Is this kind of sick joke?’ I was shocked.”