Trouble At Colgate

Colgate star running back Jordan Scott and teammate David Morgan were arrested Monday night on suspicion of burglary on the college campus and released on $10,000 bail. There's not much information out yet but there -- yet -- but there are brief stories here and here. ...

The Daily Princetonian has a story about the school's lack of a true rival across the spectrum of sports. It touches on an interesting philosophical point that was debated at Dartmouth in years past: Is the most important goal of an Ivy League team the Ivy League championship, or how is it performs on the national stage? The answer, it seems to me, depends on the sport. Anyway, the Princetonian story included this:

"Winning the Ivy League is awesome, but performing on the national level is much more valuable," (men's cross country runner Bud) Grote said.

His team has eschewed the idea that Ivy competition is the ultimate goal, preferring to focus on qualifying for Nationals. As a result, the team focuses its preparation on the regional championship, the qualifying meeting for the NCAA Championships, where Princeton's main rivals are Villanova and Georgetown.

Given that mentality, the team has decided to sit out certain competitions. This year, for example, the Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet was held at Princeton, but only Harvard and Yale competed. Grote explained that the meet "doesn't make sense for our season and our training."

That's right. Harvard and Yale competed at Princeton while the Tigers sat out a meet they hosted.

The Grand Forks Herald puts Harvard's new financial aid policy in context for someone who might be choosing between the University of North Dakota and Harvard:

Thanks to Harvard's new sliding scale, a family making $175,000 a year will pay $17,500 toward their son or daughter's year at Harvard. A family making $95,000 a year will pay $7,600. A family making $75,000 will pay $3,750.

And families making less than $60,000 won't pay anything.

The median household income in North Dakota in 2006 was $42,311. If we're reading the above figures right, then for a student from an average family in North Dakota, a year at Harvard will cost dramatically less than a year at UND.

A Yale Daily columnist takes the school to task for perhaps reacting to Harvard's move but not being in the lead of that kind of financial policy reform.

Can you imagine having three children playing sports at Harvard at one time? Check out this story in the Crimson.