Harvard newspaper doesn't want a 4th sorority

[33girl]

Okay, for the record, all my school's alumni are not football-mad neanderthals who would spontaneously combust if the hallowed pigskin were vanquished from the campus. However, there is a semi-organized group of very involved and very generous alumni from the 1950s and 1960s, most of whom were football players. It is these fellows to whom I'm referring.

I just personally find it unfair that our men's track, cross country, tennis and golf teams had to be eliminated because there aren't enough women playing on the nine teams (3 more than the men) that were offered. That's not the men's fault.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Okay, for the record, all my school's alumni are not football-mad neanderthals who would spontaneously combust if the hallowed pigskin were vanquished from the campus. However, there is a semi-organized group of very involved and very generous alumni from the 1950s and 1960s, most of whom were football players. It is these fellows to whom I'm referring.

I'm aware of that; many schools have boosters or other groups like that. And I know I'm setting a very unrealistic expectation, but since I have no affect on the real world here, so I may as well put forth my ideal. My university had a football team, and now doesn't. I don't know what happened, when it happened, but there's still incredibly strong alumni support. Now maybe it lost that same group of people you're talking about, and maybe that group was never strong at my university, but still, it's been done although not for the reasons I suggest.

Is getting rid of football actually the solution? No, not really. Should some schools consider it? Probably.