Correct.faircornell wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:17 pmMany Cornell players took the semester off when it looked like no games were coming. I don't know how many are on campus. Also, Cornell's Covid policy is still extremely strict. Given these two issues, I'd assume that a Cornell game is unlikely.
Most, if not all, Ivies had modified amounts of students on campus. In Dartmouth's case, they rotated classes off campus for various terms to reduce density. The even more relevant issue was that the Ivies each had rules for those students which they applied universally and equally across activities. Sports didn't get an exception.
I don't know any poster who didn't wish the Ivies had made an exception for sports and enabled the athletes to play. Some of us simply didn't expect it from day one, and some athletes recognized this likelihood and chose to postpone their schooling. Others sucked it up and will move on in life and careers, others sucked it up and may play a grad year or two.
Last, the stuff about parental financial contributions is, from a practical perspective, almost silly. It's rare that non alum parental contributions, from all years not just current parents, exceeds 5% of all giving...closer to 1%. Every once in a rare while a super rich parent will donate something to improve their son or daughter's experience, but that's super rare.
Alumni are who give. Now, will this experience damage alumni giving at the Ivies? At least at my school, no. But maybe it will for these classes downstream...possible.
Now, Yale has a particularly generous donor who might be peeved, but I dunno, I bet he keeps supporting the program...that said, he's already endowed it handsomely.