that the long-standing agreement between the eight Ivy League schools to not award athletics scholarships — they have long since been the only Division I schools who don't — or any compensation amounts to an"ongoing price-fixing agreement in violation of the Sherman Act."
The lawsuit argues that the universities that comprise the Ivy League — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale —"engage in unfettered competition, including with regard to pay, for their respective officers, faculty members, employees, and even graduate students, yet they agree not to provide athletic scholarships or compensate or reimburse collegiate athletes for their athletic services.
“The Ivy League athletics model is built upon the foundational principle that student-athletes should be representative of the wider student body, including the opportunity to receive need-based financial aid,” Ivy League executive director Robin Harris said in a statement after the lawsuit was filed.
You can argue that perhaps the Ivies don't need exposure at this point, though the counter is that while Harvard is certainly well-known globally, Brown and Cornell don't have the same name recognition. Gabby Thomas was the 2018 NCAA champion in the indoor 200 meters, a neurobiology major at Harvard who also became the fastest collegiate woman in the event with her title-winning sprint. Her impressive mix of speed and smarts made her a media darling.
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