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...Dartmouth College Athletic Director Joann Harper announced her decision to cut the swimming and diving teams from the athletic budget after this year’s season. The elimination of these programs has been met with unrelenting protests by Dartmouth undergraduates, but these demonstrations reveal a dire lack of maturity among our counterparts in Hanover. Students must learn that ours is a world of limits, even in an illustrious Ivy League school like Dartmouth...
...percent fall in the college’s endowment last year, Dartmouth cut its athletic budget by a relatively clement 2.5 percent. Athletic cuts of the last two years were applied evenly to all programs, and resulted in a decline in quality across the board. This convinced Harper that the overall excellence of athletics would best be served by eliminating one team instead of repeatedly cutting all programs. While the swimming and diving team ranks among the least successful of Dartmouth’s sports teams, a much more compelling justification should not be overlooked: the college?...
...Dartmouth College Athletic Director Joann Harper announced her decision to cut the swimming and diving teams from the athletic budget after this year’s season. The elimination of these programs has been met with unrelenting protests by Dartmouth undergraduates, but these demonstrations reveal a dire lack of maturity among our counterparts in Hanover. Students must learn that ours is a world of limits, even in an illustrious Ivy League school like Dartmouth...
Dartmouth athletic director JoAnn Harper was right, of course. Only Dartmouth, which owns the team, could properly put the team up for sale online...
...fiction fosters is not self-absorbed isolation but isolation as the first step toward engaging the mind of the writer or his characters. So the keystone of this book is "Why Bother?", a revised and retitled version of a now famous essay that Franzen published six years ago in Harper's magazine. He tries to define a purpose for himself as a novelist in a society in which "the rising waters of electronic culture have made each reader and each writer an island." He finds in fiction the hope of signaling across the archipelago...