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Subject: Re: Incoming ... The Market is Not Interested in Equity or Fairness or Being Nice

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Ghost

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Date Posted: 16:38:51 04/17/24 Wed
In reply to: Ghost 's message, "Re: Incoming ... The Market is Not Interested in Equity or Fairness or Being Nice" on 15:50:11 04/17/24 Wed

I can't disagree with you and I have a feeling that's mutual. The Ivies have NEVER related anything in Athletics to the market. Never invested (in a big way) in upgraded/new arenas for their most visible sport, basketball, had to twist/break some arms to get a four team tournament, play only 10 football games with a limited number of practices, on and on. But to attract a more diverse student body, YES, that's worth the investment in a coaching staff, uniforms, travel, practice gear, etc. Give me 28 full paying, academically qualified students who might normally go to Wesleyan, Tufts, Skidmore or Catholic U to play (insert sport here) and we'll have them play here.

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An Observer
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Date Posted: 16:51:20 04/17/24 Wed

One thing we agree on is that we're not disagreeing with each other.

But I will point out that, unlike when I applied to college, the Ivies these days have no problem attracting and matriculating diverse student bodies along whatever dimension of diversity we want.

With ample financial aid and very low admissions rates, the Ivies today truly are "assembling" their student bodies in one of the grandest social engineering experiments ever undertaken, maybe the most ambitious ever.

Seriously, what historic social engineering experiment ever is more ambitious and broad in scope than what the Ivies and Ivy Plus universities are doing right now?

The only question is whether one of those desired dimensions of diversity is female rugby players.

I'm afraid that's the one where you and I don't see the world the same way.

That's okay. Different strokes for different folks.

I will say that I am confident the administrators at Ivy League universities, right or wrong, spend very little time thinking about how to improve our student bodies relative to Wesleyan or Tufts, as fine as those two universities are.

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Author: David Perry (Not in a While) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:53:34 05/05/24 Sun Sorry, but the historian in me has to point out that the Ivies related a whole lot of things in athletics to the market. . .up until about 1930. :-)