Brown University, with a $4.2 billion endowment, cancels men's track and field and men's cross country

brunonia wrote:

Ummmm wrote:

Your really went to Brown and don’t know the difference between cache and cachet?

Yeah, no one who has graduated from Brown has EVER made a typo. Thank you for taking some of your clearly valuable time to expose this idiot. It's people like you who make this forum so nice to be on.

Cache and cachet arent even pronounced the same

Don't worry, about the grammar nazis, auto-correct is responsible for the demise of civilization.

All of the top universities have an army of bureaucratic elves who teach nothing, or next to nothing. Many are handsomely paid. Even those that are not get a pretty decent salary for the amount of work they do (or don't do).

Most love Bernie. He's vowed to keep the gravy train rolling.

These university war chests don't seem to ever get used to actually do any good do they? It should not be legal for universities to hold such massive amounts of money, and invest same for their own enrichment, when these institutions are non-profit and supposedly for the betterment of society.

If there is a silver lining to the pandemic it will be that elites are required to carry their fair share of burden, and elite institutions will be directed again to support the common good.

Luv2Run wrote:

This notion that university presidents should not be well compensated is pretty silly. I doubt few here have a clue was a university president does. The Univ of GA president makes $600K plus a year. He oversees a budget of $1.7B. That is about 0.4 % of the budget.

Again, the question comes around to the sheer largesse of the endowment. 1.7 billion would be the combined GDP of a dozen (?) African nations. WTF. What educational institution on God's green earth needs that kind of money? The are schools for crying out loud, not hedge funds.

+1 In a world coming unhinged, it's borderline evil that these private universities hold onto these sorts of war chests. Non-profits. My ass. Don't any of you elites ever ask the question about what could be done in this world with Harvard's 40 billion dollar endowment? 40 billion dollars.

ocracoke wrote:

Luv2Run wrote:

This notion that university presidents should not be well compensated is pretty silly. I doubt few here have a clue was a university president does. The Univ of GA president makes $600K plus a year. He oversees a budget of $1.7B. That is about 0.4 % of the budget.

Again, the question comes around to the sheer largesse of the endowment. 1.7 billion would be the combined GDP of a dozen (?) African nations. WTF. What educational institution on God's green earth needs that kind of money? The are schools for crying out loud, not hedge funds.

As a Brown alum and regular contributor to Brown Sports designated for XC I am appalled by this move. Will not be giving Brown any money in the future, not even to the annual fund!

brown72 wrote:

regular contributor to Brown Sports designated for XC

What happens to the money designated to track and cross country?

Can the college just decide to cancel the endowment?

Do you get a refund?

Please take a moment to consider the following video, which compiles testimonials from current and former Brown XC/TF athletes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgKqMF6RXUQ

In addition to signing the official petition (25k signatures and counting, linked here:

https://www.change.org/p/brown-university-department-of-athletics-retain-brown-men-s-track-field-s-varsity-status?signed=true

), you can also donate directly to the cause here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/retain-brown-university-men039s-track-amp-field-amp-xc?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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I would forget the petition and enter the transfer portal asap. If it is too late, cross divisions and run for an institution that values them with no delay at all. They could run for a college like Williams without delay. They also thereby stand a great chance to be All American. Forget being relegated to club status. These men deserve to run and have demonstrated that.. And the fact that the most diverse team at Brown is being axed to proffer and elevate the least diverse team (sailing) shows disparate racial impact. This is just the wrong message Brown should be sending regarding diversity, and is a complete outrage.