September 19, 2003

Vanderbilt U. Keeps Sports but Drops Its Athletics Dept.

Vanderbilt University is not getting rid of sports.

E. Gordon Gee, the university's chancellor, wants everyone to be absolutely sure about that.

The university is going to make a greater effort to integrate its athletics program more tightly into the rest of the institution, however. To that end, Vanderbilt announced last week that it was dissolving the athletics department and creating a new Office of Student Athletics, Recreation and Wellness, which will supervise not only

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