Dartmouth Accused of Anti-Asian Bias in Varsity Team Cuts
- The Ivy school said it was dropping teams due to budget woes
- Student group says Asian Americans disproportionately affected
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Dartmouth College’s decision to cut five varsity teams discriminates against athletes of Asian descent, a group of students claimed in a letter to the university’s board of trustees.
The Ivy League school announced in July that it was dropping men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing to help address a massive budget deficit caused in part by the coronavirus pandemic. Those five teams included more than 30 Asian-American varsity athletes, nearly half the total number at Dartmouth, 11 members of the swimming and diving teams said in a Tuesday statement.