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...exactly right in asserting that football programs represent a sacrifice to the academic quality and diversity of entering first-year classes,” Furstenberg said in the letter. “This is particularly true at highly selective institutions that aspire to academic excellence...I wish this were not true but sadly football, and the culture that surrounds it, is antithetical to the academic mission of colleges such as ours...
...Dartmouth administration frantically responded to the article with a press release that included statements from Furstenberg and President James Wright...
...Furstenberg was quick to point out that “this was a private communication to a professional colleague, commenting on a national issue in higher education...
...Furstenberg continued by adding that “the views expressed in that letter do not reflect Dartmouth policy nor do they have any bearing on the manner in which I carry out my responsibilities at the College...
...very sorry that remarks I made in a private December 2000 letter to the President of Swarthmore College will offend and disappoint people I care about and who, as I do, care about Dartmouth and our student athletes,” Furstenberg said in the statement...