Yeah, that's a bunch of bogus arguments piled into one paragraph, here's why:
1. The pool is available to all students and faculty and local clubs generally, not just the team. The cost to maintain the pool does not change if the program is cancelled unless they fill in the pool. So, swimming keeps an amenity around, not vice versa as you suggest.
2. Universities are not set up to turn profits, hence their non profit status.
3. Hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarships go unused a year. Cutting swimming won't change that or send any more kids to college, needy or otherwise.
4. A tenured professor probably earns more than a college swim coach and spends less time with his/her students, and probably has less of an impact on their lives.
5. Sports are part of the college experience. Who wants to go to a school with no sports?
6. What does one's socio economic status have to do with swimming? Swimming has an incredibly high graduation rate versus football and basketball. Graduates earn more than non graduates and therefore return more money to the economy and probably the school.
Yeah, that's a bunch of bogus arguments piled into one paragraph, here's why:
1. The pool is available to all students and faculty and local clubs generally, not just the team. The cost to maintain the pool does not change if the program is cancelled unless they fill in the pool. So, swimming keeps an amenity around, not vice versa as you suggest.
2. Universities are not set up to turn profits, hence their non profit status.
3. Hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarships go unused a year. Cutting swimming won't change that or send any more kids to college, needy or otherwise.
4. A tenured professor probably earns more than a college swim coach and spends less time with his/her students, and probably has less of an impact on their lives.
5. Sports are part of the college experience. Who wants to go to a school with no sports?
6. What does one's socio economic status have to do with swimming? Swimming has an incredibly high graduation rate versus football and basketball. Graduates earn more than non graduates and therefore return more money to the economy and probably the school.
