Univ. of New Hampshire is getting rid of its women's rowing. The official line is that it has to get rid of some sports so that it can get into compliance with Title IX. Really is that it is doing a big budget cut. I wonder if this is the first women's team to be axed becasue of Title IX.
I don't understand how Title IX can possibly be used for what seems to me to be a really cheap blow to many girls. Rowing is a somewhat expensive sport, lots of coaches, lots of equipment.
Our football team loses money, or at least the University publishes it that way. And no duh there was huge money brought in 2 years ago. And no duh basketball is still bringing tons of money in.
I said I don't hate the football and basketball players, just don't tell me they work harder than other kids who don't get a full ride or other athletes who attend the university. Being a Division 1 athlete in any sport is not easy.
There is tremendous value in those scholarships they get, they should work hard. No one from last years graduating football class got recruited to the pros, so they have to use their degrees to get on in life. Degrees they got because they could play football. Degrees other kids had to work just as hard to get without scholarships.
I am not going to feel sorry for them and "supposedly" the university does not give preferential treatment to alumni and staff, and that was directly out of the mouth of the administration on a tour I went on. I put that in quotes because my sis worked in admissions for a while and said coding is in the computer for facility and alum, and told me to make sure my son put it on his ap(my Dad is a professor emeritus). So I know what they "say" and what actually happens are two different things.
My son did not even choose Illinois, but ISU because ISU is a little smaller, and a better school for undergrad. He may come back for grad work, and yes, he will be working and making money to pay for it!
Our football team loses money, or at least the University publishes it that way. And no duh there was huge money brought in 2 years ago. And no duh basketball is still bringing tons of money in.
I said I don't hate the football and basketball players, just don't tell me they work harder than other kids who don't get a full ride or other athletes who attend the university. Being a Division 1 athlete in any sport is not easy.
There is tremendous value in those scholarships they get, they should work hard. No one from last years graduating football class got recruited to the pros, so they have to use their degrees to get on in life. Degrees they got because they could play football. Degrees other kids had to work just as hard to get without scholarships.
I am not going to feel sorry for them and "supposedly" the university does not give preferential treatment to alumni and staff, and that was directly out of the mouth of the administration on a tour I went on. I put that in quotes because my sis worked in admissions for a while and said coding is in the computer for facility and alum, and told me to make sure my son put it on his ap(my Dad is a professor emeritus). So I know what they "say" and what actually happens are two different things.
My son did not even choose Illinois, but ISU because ISU is a little smaller, and a better school for undergrad. He may come back for grad work, and yes, he will be working and making money to pay for it!
