If its name ain't football or basketball, forget it. Whatever happened to mens sana in corpore sano?- gwcTemple University is severing ties with that rich tradition. In a decision announced this month, less than 72 hours before final exams, university officials decided to cut the men’s and women’s crews and five other varsity sports, a move that affects more than 200 student-athletes. The savings for the university will be $3 million to $3.5 million a year, a small slice of the university’s $44 million athletics budget.Gone, starting July 1, will be the men’s gymnastics team, which has the highest grade point average of all teams on campus and the 2013 senior male athlete of the year. The program started in 1926. Gone also will be baseball and men’s track and field (indoor and outdoor), along with women’s softball.
Our "three gorges" were two - Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy. 100 years ago Congress passed and Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act. It permitted the flooding of Hetch Hetchy to supply water for San Francisco. That act of environmental destruction made possible today's San Francisco. Should we have done it? Can we "undo" it?
