[81alum]

I am feeling like a dinosaur.  Stanford is pretty much the only university left that has tried to maintain very high academic standards, keep up the amateur athletics ideal (which was the whole reason athletics was introduced to American universities in the first place--an odd arrangement if you ask any European), and a high level of athletic achievement.  The whole direction American collegiate sports are going threaten the Stanford model in particular, and I worry that Stanford will have no other choice but to follow the Ivy League.

This makes Stanford's decision to cut all of those non-revenue sports all the more tragic.  It is only a handful of sports that is driving the conversion to the increasingly commercialized "amateur" sport environment.  But all the sports we cut were NOT among them.

[81alum]

I am feeling like a dinosaur.  Stanford is pretty much the only university left that has tried to maintain very high academic standards, keep up the amateur athletics ideal (which was the whole reason athletics was introduced to American universities in the first place--an odd arrangement if you ask any European), and a high level of athletic achievement.  The whole direction American collegiate sports are going threaten the Stanford model in particular, and I worry that Stanford will have no other choice but to follow the Ivy League.

This makes Stanford's decision to cut all of those non-revenue sports all the more tragic.  It is only a handful of sports that is driving the conversion to the increasingly commercialized "amateur" sport environment.  But all the sports we cut were NOT among them.