Support Dartmouth College Aquatics Programs - Swimming and Diving and Water Polo

I visited your school a few months ago, and I was taken aback by the amount of school spirit I witnessed. I found it so refreshing to see everyone so incredibly happy to be at school and do Dartmouth related things. ... I did not realize how much school spirit mattered to me ... I think that nothing else can make a college experience more positive than seeing your entire school at a football game, playing in the snow like a kid with 500 fellow classmates, or covering your body in green because it just feels right.

I read a story in my school's newspaper the other day about the cancellation of the swimming and diving teams your school. At first, I thought myself mistaken. How could Dartmouth, the school with the most active, cohesive, and pro-school student body on earth cancel the largest generator of school spirit: a sports team? From what I've read, the Dartmouth student body feels the same way I do on this issue. Furthermore, I am sure that many of your recruited swimmers and divers are now wondering what they should do, having one of their reasons for coming to Dartmouth canceled. If you need money that badly, have a fund raiser, wait another year before renovating the dorms, ask alumni for donations, anything, but please don't cancel the thing that makes Dartmouth Dartmouth.