Dartmouth Not Thinking About Ending Early Admission

A gray morning here in the Upper Valley but the forecast is good for tomorrow in Hamilton. It should be a perfect 72 degrees and sunny.

Before getting to some football, The Daily Dartmouth has a web update in which admissions director Karl Furstenberg suggests the college is not likely to follow Harvard's lead and abandon the early admission program. If you listen carefully, you can hear Dartmouth coaches applauding. Said Furstenberg:

"Every time we've (reviewed our admissions policies) in the recent past, we've come to the conclusion that early decision works well for Dartmouth and its students. There's no immediate need to change."

Green Alert Take: Someone whose name you would know referred to the Harvard move as "grandstanding."

Chris Lincoln, author of the Ivy League recruiting book Playing the Game, is working on an analysis of Harvard's move and it will be posted here and on the paid site soon.

One more link outside of football before we dive in. There's a CSTV story about Dartmouth alum and former Big Green basketball coach Dave Gavitt being inducted into the game's Hall of Fame. It includes this:

"Sure, Charles Barkley and Dominique Wilkins and Joe Dumars might have been the sexier names showcased during Friday's enshrinement ceremonies. But all of their on-court accolades put together don't hold a candle to Gavitt's interminable list of accomplishments both behind and before the scenes, a resume so far-reaching and extensive that it's hard to wrap your arms around."

The Boston Herald runs an Ivy League preview it refers to as "cursory," looking at the teams in the order in which they were projected by the media poll.

OK, here we go. The Harvard Crimson season-opening football preview can't ignore the turmoil in Cambridge during the offseason. It includes this from tailback Clifton Dawson:

“Whatever our capabilities were before the adversity, I think they are still the same. I think all this adversity we’ve dealt with will only make us stronger.”

Speaking of which, a backup wide receiver for Harvard has been dismissed from the team.

A New York Times story out of the Columbia-Fordham game focuses, not surprisingly, on new Lions coach Norries Wilson. I like this very honest quote from Wilson:

“We don’t have anything but a dream to sell right now."

The Columbia Spectator takes a look at the opener with Fordham here.

At Cornell it has been, and will continue to be, all about defense according to this story in the Ithaca Journal.

TONIGHT ON GREEN ALERT premium: A preview of the Colgate game, Ivy League and opponent previews and The Tale of the Tape.

The 2005 championship was fabulous, but it's now history at Brown as it says in this preview in the Brown Daily Herald.

The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look at the Quakers' opener at Lafayette and its new stadium.

Finally, the Yale Daily News has a package of stories indexed here but the links aren't working, at least on my Mac, so it's all you ;-)