"Intercollegiate athletics must not receive so much emphasis in the University's affairs as to divert the University from its primary educational mission of instruction. As basketball and football have evolved in the United States over the past half century, they have become primarily spectator sports for nonstudents, as opposed to participant sports for students. On some campuses, preoccupation with intercollegiate athletics has at times become so pervasive that it has deflected the attention of students, faculty, trustees, and friends from the principal purposes for which the institution was created in the first place. This will not happen at Vanderbilt".
Chancellor Heard and Jean attended all home football games-except Alabama.
Chancellor Heard and Jean attended all home football games-except Alabama.
