A Tale of Two Campuses: Pandemic, Privilege, and Platform

We are always going to be around people with more resources, who will be held to lower standards with less accountability. Student-athletes have to recognize their unofficial positions of power on campus and the level of influence these positions have. As we move forward, it is important that we as a community work towards holding our own peers accountable instead of relying on an absent administration to do the work for us. Only then will we be able to move past social hierarchies and reconcile relations between student-athletes and non-student-athletes.

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There’s a Chip on his Shoulder: What David Cohen Brings to Skidmore’s Tennis Team

David Cohen's ‘23 journey to Skidmore ‘s tennis team began when he was 12 and decided to dedicate all of his time to tennis, leaving his other sport — soccer — behind. Since then, playing with something to prove has been the driving force behind his dominance as an All-American four-star recruit.

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