Re: Burned Ivy: The Brown Bears and a Recovery from Scandal
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:57 pm
Dear President Orton,
It’s long been apparent that NCAA intercollegiate athletics and the academic program at prestiious Brown University are incompatible. Other alums, along with ourselves, have strongly encouraged you and your predecessor to just have club sports thus preserving funds for the academics that should be of primary importance at an Ivy university.
NCAA intercollegiate athletics not only reduce funding for more important programs at Brown but also lead to admittance of athletes who have substandard academic credentials thus depriving more qualified students o being admitted. And, as has been the case in the basketball program, the drive to have successful athletic teams leads to cheating which obviously is inimical to the traditions of Brown University.
We therefore demand that you immediately take steps to rid Brown University of NCAA intercollegiate athletics in all its forms.
Signed,
(Signatures of Cordell J. Funthuasen IV and 100 othere alumni of Brown University)
It’s long been apparent that NCAA intercollegiate athletics and the academic program at prestiious Brown University are incompatible. Other alums, along with ourselves, have strongly encouraged you and your predecessor to just have club sports thus preserving funds for the academics that should be of primary importance at an Ivy university.
NCAA intercollegiate athletics not only reduce funding for more important programs at Brown but also lead to admittance of athletes who have substandard academic credentials thus depriving more qualified students o being admitted. And, as has been the case in the basketball program, the drive to have successful athletic teams leads to cheating which obviously is inimical to the traditions of Brown University.
We therefore demand that you immediately take steps to rid Brown University of NCAA intercollegiate athletics in all its forms.
Signed,
(Signatures of Cordell J. Funthuasen IV and 100 othere alumni of Brown University)