Larry Winer writes:
 
 
>The service academies have an advantage- they can only recruit American
>players- I mean the "schools" we are talking about are American schools and
>in an era when we are discussing immigration policies etc- we ought to
>rethink the mass importation of foreign athletes into NCAA sports (it's not
>just hockey- foreign athletes have ruined US track and field and swimming and
>before we hockey people slam the NCAA- look what has happened to the great
>sport of collegiate wrestling due to lunacy in enforcement of  Title IX).
 
How have foreign athletes "ruined" track and field?  I think the US had
their fair share of track gold medals in the Olympics this year, did they
not?  How about swimming?  We may not have completely dominated like in
past years but, so what, we are still garnering our share of medals.  As
far as wrestling goes, the problem isn't enforcement of Title IX, it's the
colleges' methods in trying to comply.  Title IX does not talk about
reducing scholarship opportunities for anyone, it talks about equal
opportunities for all.  It's the schools that choose draconian methods for
compliance.  When I went to high school in the '60's, there were only two
sports available for girls - field hockey in the fall, basketball in the
winter.  No track, no softball, even no hockey.  My 11 year old daughter
has already played soccer, basketball and softball in her young life.
Girls of her mother's generation had nothing.  Are we better or worse off
as a society for giving females these opportunities to participate?
 
>It seems to me that Doug Woog makes do with American boys.
 
But BC hasn't.
 
>Query- now that Cornell has a Slovakian does that mean we have 3 anthems
>before >the game. Please I am not a"jingoist".
 
Could have fooled me.
 
>I just think it is lunacy and counterproductive to our own interests not
>to >give preferences to our own American players who's parents pay the
>taxes that >subsidize the schools.
 
And what interests are those?  Are you saying that American hockey cannot
compete on the international level because of the "infestation" of foreign
born players?  I seem to recall that the professional Americans won the
Canada Cup series last September (with mostly college products) and the
American team finished second in the World Juniors in December (mostly with
players who are now with American colleges).  So how is it
counterproductive?
 
On a more general note, why don't we just have every country close up its
borders and let no one in?  This way no English, French, Australian,
Chinese, etc. would be taking classroom space away from children of
American taxpayers.  Of course, no Americans will be going to Oxford or
Cambridge or to the Sorbonne either since we certainly don't  want to
deprive English or French taxpayers the opportunity to "broaden" their
children's education as well.
 
Larry, your words and mine can be read in every corner of the world within
a matter of seconds.   The world is getting smaller, not bigger.  I think
you should wake up to that fact.
 
Greg Ambrose, UNMH '72
GO UNH BLUE!!!
ON TO WISCONSIN!!!
 
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