Women's College Drops Sports to Focus on Wellness

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Citing the rising cost of sponsoring an intercollegiate athletics program, as well as concern over general students' health, Atlanta's Spelman College has decided to replace sports with a wellness program that serves the entire campus population.

"When we studied this early this year, I was startled to see that we really had only 80 student-athletes out of 2,100 students, and our program was costing almost $1 million," Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of the historically black women's college, told The New York Times. "I was also surprised to learn of studies showing that African-American women are the least physically active demographic in the U.S."

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