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- NATION, Page 27American NotesSPORTSDropping The Ball
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- In a portentous sign of the times, the University of Wisconsin
- and Yale announced recently that they would eliminate some of
- their athletic teams starting next year.
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- Yale, which must slash an $11 million athletic budget by
- $560,000, will retire the varsity men's water-polo and wrestling
- teams and the junior varsity men's hockey team. Disgruntled Eli
- captains said they had been targeted because of low attendance
- and Title IX regulations, which compel universities to offer
- equal athletic opportunities to men and women.
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- The University of Wisconsin, having run up a $1.9 million
- athletic department deficit, said it would cap funding for crew
- and purge the baseball, gymnastics and fencing teams. The main
- cause of the budget shortfall appears to be an erosion of
- football revenue, with average attendance dropping from 74,600
- in 1984 to 51,027 last year. Other hard-strapped colleges and
- universities are expected to follow suit.
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