If the preliminary observations of several Ivy athletic directors is any indication, the ruling may be in danger.
Yale athletic director Thomas Beckett says he encountered “immediate feedback that the students don’t like it.”
“I just think the students are saying they just don’t quite understand why this was done and what the purpose of it is,” Beckett said.
Brown athletic director David Roach says that, given what he has heard so far from student athletes, “a lot needs to be revisited and at the minimum some adjustments made.”
Roach adds that the rule is discriminatory.
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“We aren’t telling the Brown Daily Herald or singing groups that they have to do the same thing.”
—Staff Writer William M. Rasmussen can be reached at wrasmuss@fas.harvard.edu.