palestra38
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10-10-17 10:54 AM - Post#233691
In response to Tiger69
That already exists in the major sports. Princeton, of course, is unique in having a far higher percentage of its student body who participate in varsity sports, but the basketball, hockey and football players spend much more time on their sports than other athletes and are not as integrated into the student body as you make out. Moreover, the financial aid policies of HYand Pr (and to a lesser extent, Penn) essentially act as athletic scholarships at least as compared with the 4 smaller and/or poorer schools. The real idea behind the abolishment of athletic grants in aid was not to integrate athletes but to create a level playing field untarnished by unwarranted "professionalism" (which in those days meant Cornell and Penn football). More than anything else, we need a new 'Constitutional Convention" to re-draft the Ivy Agreement in light of the world of 2017, not 1955. I doubt it will happen, though, because the Big 3 (and especially Harvard and Yale) like it exactly the way it is.
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