>>> "Jeffrey T. Anbinder" <[log in to unmask]> 08/21/97 11:00am >>>
>>> Troy and anyone else wishing to challenge that assertion are more
>>> than welcome to check those facts with any of the eight Ivy financial
>>> aid offices or the independent firms that audit them - or to take up the
>>> issue with Cornellian goalie Parris Duffus, who left to play
>>> professionally when it became apparent that his parents could not
>>> afford to send both him and his sister to college simultaneously.
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Anbinder, CU '94
>>> Ithaca Times Hockey Columnist
 
Jeffrey, if Duffus' parents couldn't afford the tuition, why didn't Cornell
give him financial aid? Your argument which you contend will prove that
Ivies give only valid financial aid packages does not hold any water.
 
 "Look, I have proof Cornell will only give players financial aid when they
need it because Duffus needed it and didn't get it."
 
See my point?
 
Maybe there was some other reason Duffus left school?
 
In any case, I don't want to get too deep into this. I have a lot of respect
for the Ivies and the way they hold academics higher than athletics. I can
vouch for Harvard in that those hockey players are clearly students first
and athletes second. But, I'm not so sure that I'd buy what you (and the
Ivy Administrations) are trying to sell.
 
- Paul.
 
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