The Problem With Football

If you haven't seen the Time Magazine story, "The Problem with Football: How to Make It Safer," it is a must-read. Greg Hadley, the Colgate senior who is featured in the lede of the story, was a high school teammate of former Dartmouth lineman Rich Cummings. Author Sean Gregory is a former Princeton basketball player.

Among other suggestions promoted to lessen the concussion problem: eliminating the three-point stance for linemen.

UPDATE: The Providence Journal suggests Brown's cuts will be deeper and varsity teams could be a casualty.

Brown is trimming $14 million from next year's budget as the Daily Herald reports (emphasis is mine):

The University has identified ways of minimizing the impact of recent years’ losses from the University’s endowment while continuing to advance Brown’s agenda, administrators announced at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, proposing several measures to cut costs including layoffs, a tuition increase and cuts to varsity sports programs.

The Yale Daily News writes about efforts to "recover a budget deficit of more than $100 million." The Yale Daily also takes a historic look at budget problems in New Haven.

As you well know, Dartmouth has pledged to trim $100 million from the budget over the next two years.

Staying on the same track, The Harvard Crimson reports, "Donations to American colleges and universities fell nearly 12 percent during the fiscal year ending last June, the steepest decline in fundraising since the mid-1970s ..."

And Williams College, which had joined the "no-loan" movement, has announced, "It now seems prudent to reintroduce modest loans for some aided students, beginning with the class that enters in the fall of 2011. No current students will be affected; neither will those who enter this fall."