A group of varsity student-athletes from Dartmouth College in Hanover have staged a protest, decrying the school’s cutting of it’s dive and swim teams, reports WMUR.
Earlier this month, Dartmouth announced that it would be cutting the men’s/women’s dive and swim teams, alongside three other varsity sports, due to budget cuts. Upon this announcement, a group of students began to organize the protest.
On Wednesday, student-athletes placed 853 pairs of goggles on the campus green. According to the report, each pair represents an area child who have received swimming lessons from team members in the past five years.
Organizers stated that the protest’s goal was to get the attention of school officials. “The program here is over 100 years old, and by eliminating this, we will be the only Ivy League that doesn’t have a varsity swim and dive program,” stated Junior Susannah Laster.
At the protest’s end, the goggles will be donated to the Trident Swim Foundation in New York.
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