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Chris Lincoln, author of the 2004 book “Playing the Game: Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League,” notes that the biggest AI opponent was actually former Yale president and commissioner of Major League Baseball, A. Bartlett Giamatti, who feared a lack of autonomy and...
“When I was on the Ivy Policy committee I used to be the guy who would explain some of the highly technical problems [the AI] has as a statistical instrument,” Lewis says. “But the basic idea of using it to ensure...
Perhaps the most significant competitive disadvantage, however, is the sheer lack of athletic scholarships. Walsh tells the story of an African-American and eventual third-round draft choice who was set to come to Harvard before withdrawing because of a scholarship offer at another school.
“If African-American students were over-represented on our sports teams, I would be worried. That would suggest that we were using those minority students as mercenaries for us on the athletic fields,” he says. “Given that we have a significant...
In drafting that 2004 Self-Study, Dartmouth grappled with this very concern. Ultimately, in articulating why so-called meaningful diversity on sports teams was valuable in the first place, the committee “emphatically concluded” that its school should care about athletic diversity for what amounts to...