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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents of non athletes hate the athletes.  Their fellow students don’t.  [/quote]

This is not an accurate statement. The divide is real at several top LACs. Lacrosse bros are typically the most segregated. next is usually football players.

The most SLAC athlete/non-athlete divides are at Amherst College and at Middlebury College.

Similar athlete/non-athlete divide at all size of colleges & universities, but the larger the school, the less impact it has on a student's day-to-day life.[/quote]

Nope.  As a parent of an Amherst kid - this is not true.  No D3 schools gives a crap about athletes.  They are all smart kids - some play sports - some dont. No one cares. [/quote]

Not accurate according to Amherst College study which found a significant divide between athletes and non-athletes at Amherst College.

Report finds divide between athletes and non-athletes at Amherst College:

https://www.gazettenet.com/Amherst-college-assesses-athletics-in-report-7871942

The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast have also published several articles regarding athletic divide at Amherst College.[/quote]

The article is from 2017 and details a report from 2014-15. Biddy Martin is no longer president and every student involved (athletes and non athletes) has graduated and moved on.
I can't speak to Amherst specifically, as I have no first-hand knowledge of the culture there, but you're sharing very outdated information.[/quote]

Is an article written and published by then current Amherst students in 2021 recent enough ?

The Amherst Student--March 17,2021:

Seeing Double: Bridging Amherst's Athletic Divide

(The link at first won't work, then the screen will change. Scroll down a bit to the article.)

https://www.amherststudent.com/article/bridging-amhersts-athletic-divide/
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Better, but what a yikes of an article.

To wit: "athletes, seen as less intelligent by many non-athletes..." -- cite source? Or is this the author's view?
"varsity athletic programs receive millions annually" -- links to a report that says their total revenue is $7,990,643 vs total expenses of $7,505,943. Sounds to me like these programs bring in money.
"I myself sometimes wonder how different my Amherst experience would be if I had kept in touch with the athletes I exchanged numbers with during first-year orientation." -- that's on you, sir.

... culminating in the author's proposal to turn "all official athletics at the college into special athletic clubs, open to all students, regardless of experience. No more athletes would be recruited primarily to play on a specific team (although athletic ability could still help a student’s application). Instead, students would be allowed to join or create any athletic club they choose, and be trained on the job by their coaches and more experienced peers."

I could go on but unfortunately I have work to do.

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