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2 college swim teams compete, without either one leaving home

11:35 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 |
Mike McDermott    Email |   Email this entry

This is an amazing item contained in a larger New York Times story about the way colleges are finding small ways to save money in the midst of the economic crisis:

At Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., the women's swim team held a "virtual swim meet" with Bryn Mawr College, in Pennsylvania, about 112 miles away. Each team swam in its home pool, then compared times to determine the winners. ("We probably saved $900 on bus travel," said William G. Durden, Dickinson's president.)

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