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After Dartmouth College’s cash-strapped athletic department announced it would cut its swim teams last month, the boyfriend of one of the Big Green swimmers put the team up for sale on eBay, hoping to scrape together the $211,000 needed to keep the team afloat.
The plan went, well, swimmingly for about two days. The team’s bidding page got thousands of hits, and one (eventually withdrawn) bid of $212,000. But then, aided by the Dartmouth athletic department, some astute chap at eBay figured out that the team wasn’t...
Dartmouth athletic director JoAnn Harper was right, of course. Only Dartmouth, which owns the team, could properly put the team up for sale online.
If you’re Harvard, you get the chance to pad your stats in the one area in which your athletic department is head and shoulders above the rest. Harvard’s biggest claim to fame is its 41 varsity sports—a number that leads the...
The impending loss of practice space is even more distressing. Currently, more than 18 student dance organizations vigorously compete for space alongside 15 extracurricular courses in ballet, modern, jazz, tap and West African dance. These courses alone attract more than 600 Harvard students and others. Without the Rieman Center, these...