WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - Dartmouth College's decision to cut five varsity teams discriminates against athletes of Asian descent, a group of students claimed in a letter to the university's board of trustees.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Dartmouth College's decision to cut five varsity teams discriminates against athletes of Asian descent, a group of students claimed in a letter to the university's board of trustees.
Those five teams included more than 30 Asian-American varsity athletes, nearly half the total number at Dartmouth, 11 members of the swimming and diving teams said in a Tuesday statement. "The college's decision will further discourage young athletes of Asian descent from pursuing athletics, emphasising that they are unwelcome from competing in sports at the collegiate level," the group said in its statement, which also noted that Asian Americans comprise less than 2 per cent of all NCAA Division I athletes.
President Philip Hanlon said in a statement at the time of the announcement that"these decisions were made with great care and with the long-term interests of the learning experience provided by Dartmouth Athletics front and centre."Stanford and Brown both announced they were dropping a number of varsity teams. In Brown's case, the decision triggered accusations that the university was violating its settlement of a landmark lawsuit over gender equity in college sports.
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