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MIT Cuts 8 Varsity Sports

April 27, 2009 RSS Feed Print

MIT is cutting eight varsity sports to trim the university's budget, the Boston Globe reports. The sports that will be cut include men's and women's ice hockey and gymnastics, wrestling, golf, Alpine skiing, and pistol, and will help the athletic department erase a large part of its $485,000 deficit. MIT is cutting spending by $100 million to $150 million over the next two to three years, approximately 10 to 15 percent of its total spending.

MIT still has 33 varsity sports, more than the average Division III school (the national average is 16 sports) and more than even such high-profile sports colleges as the University of Southern California (19), Alabama (19), and Texas (18).

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MIT is not know for it sports but athletics does many things - personally for the students and probably not that much for MIT. Since they participate in D3 athletics, why not cut all the programs then and get it over with, then cut support to the band, theater groups, etc? It is curious that every year tuition increases, not that much is offered in terms of more service to the students. What are they spending it on, or is just the cost doing business increasing across the board? I disagree with the first post. Athletics is an great way to meet people and have fun at school ( I went to Cornell and played a sport there, for what it's worth, I have developed many life long friendships - more than through meeting people in the classroom). Pretty soon MIT will cut impose costs to have intramural sports, if they haven't done so already. Then , truly, MIT will just be a bunch of labs, professors, student, at parking lots.

JK of DC 3:45PM May 28, 2009

Oooh, making the tough cuts I see. Why is it so difficult for these very, very bright people that our centers of education MUST be about education from now on and MUST get their budgets in line with what their students can pay? I am a huge fan of intramural sports but I see no reason for enormous amounts of money to be spent on fields, buildings and personnel to run overgrown sports programs. Spend money on classrooms, labs and professors and reduce tuition.

tom frost of OR 6:55AM April 28, 2009

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