"Playing The Game" author Chris Lincoln's Q&A can be found here. Also, do scroll down the past few days and read the comments people have been sharing. You'll find them interesting.
Not a good morning for the ol' internet up here on the mountain as a few pages will load and others will not. Very frustrating and it will limit where I can steer you.
Columbia joined the party yesterday and formally announced its financial aid reforms. A quick read of the Spectator story and the college release suggests that from an athletic recruiting perspective, it has put the New York school in line with Dartmouth, but it hasn't measurably closed the gap against what HYP is doing in the middle income bracket. From the story:
Starting next year, CC and SEAS students from families with annual incomes below $60,000 will not have to pay for any aspect of college—tuition, room, or board. The University will substitute all loans with grants for CC and SEAS students, a change that could add up to $20,000 for any student over a four-year span.The Spectator also has a sidebar.
The changes will also affect families making between $60,000 and $100,000 per year. Such families, a University press release stated, “will see a significant reduction” in parental contribution toward tuition.
The New York Times continues its series on the athletic scholarships with an interesting piece headlined, "It’s Not an Adventure, It’s a Job." The mother of an athlete is quoted:
“Villanova costs more than $40,000 a year to attend. They’re paying you $19,000 to play field hockey. At your age, there is no one out there anywhere who is going to pay you that kind of money to do anything. And that’s how you have to look at this: It’s a job, but it’s a great job.”Ivy League athletes will tell you they work just as hard and just as long as scholarship athletes – and they don't get the $19,000 or whatever amount the scholarship kids get. The wonder, therefore, shouldn't be at how many athletes quit at the Ivies, but at how many stick with it.
The Times also has this companion piece headlined, "Divvying Scholarship Dollars."
Harvard football's offseason training program is featured in this story about the, "Great American Tug Off."
The Penn men's basketball team handed Princeton its 23rd loss last night (that's not a typo) to drop the once-mighty Tigers into the Ivy League basement for the second year in a row. After the game, Penn standout Brian Grandieri unintentionally gave Dartmouth basketball a backhand slap in this story when he said:
"We did get a couple of quality wins on the road. That's not easy to do in this league. You go to Dartmouth, it's an 8-hour drive and there's 100 people in the stands, including your family and a couple of band members."Ouch.
And finally, I spotted the first sap buckets hanging from sugar maples at the end of our road yesterday. That's a good sign because the sap runs sweetest and best when temperatures are below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. We've got a couple of buckets we put out some years, enough to boil down a cup or so of fine New England syrup. I don't know if it will get much above freezing today but the other part of the equation is on track. The weather guy said this morning that temperatures tonight would dip into the single digits again.
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