Maybe this is burying the lede on a day when Dartmouth is in the national news for two different issues but here we go . . .
— Jace Henry (@k1ngj05) February 5, 2024
Nevada Sportsnet has a story HERE that includes the tight end's stats, but leaves out one that is eye-popping. The 6-foot-4 Alaskan is an absolute truck at tight end, packing 270 pounds on an athletic 6-foot-4 frame. He'll head to Reno as a grad transfer after collecting his Dartmouth degree.
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The headline in a story from Yahoo last night sums up the breaking news succinctly: NLRB rules that Dartmouth men's basketball players are employees in decision that challenges NCAA's amateurism model. Find the story HERE.
There are too many stories on the ruling and its potential ramifications to read them all. The Axios synopsis does a pretty fair job of summarizing the high points HERE.
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The NLRB ruling comes on the heels of this, which I meant to post yesterday:
The researchers were able to analyze the test scores even of students who had not submitted them to Dartmouth. (Colleges can see the scores after the admissions process is finished.) Many lower-income students, it turned out, had made a strategic mistake.
They withheld test scores that would have helped them get into Dartmouth. They wrongly believed that their scores were too low, when in truth the admissions office would have judged the scores to be a sign that students had overcome a difficult environment and could thrive at Dartmouth.
As the four professors — Elizabeth Cascio, Bruce Sacerdote, Doug Staiger and Michele Tine — wrote in a memo, referring to the SAT’s 1,600-point scale, “There are hundreds of less-advantaged applicants with scores in the 1,400 range who should be submitting scores to identify themselves to admissions, but do not under test-optional policies.” Some of these applicants were rejected because the admissions office could not be confident about their academic qualifications. The students would have probably been accepted had they submitted their test scores, Lee Coffin, Dartmouth’s dean of admissions, told me.
The Dartmouth has a follow piece HERE.
Need more? There are stories everywhere from The Wall Street Journal (LINK) to NPR (LINK) to the New York Post (LINK).
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EXTRA POINT
Three days after the passenger-side window of our car was smashed by someone who made off with about $20 while we were hiking, the car was back at the scene of the crime yesterday but there was no need to leave it unlocked while hitting the trail to prevent another break-in. The window hadn't yet been replaced so a ne'er-do-well could just reach in and take whatever he or she wanted. Spoiler: It didn't happen.
The window is being replaced today. While the insurance company left us with the impression that the glass people would come to our house, that's not the case because the compound they need to use to fasten the glass won't set properly in colder temperatures. That means a 45-minute drive to have the window replaced. Life in small-town America!
And in case the ne'er-do-well is reading this (as if!) the car will be unlocked whenever it is at the trailhead from now on. If you need the $20, just ask. . .
