Athletes vs. Non-Athletes: The Fizz Debate

On Fizz, one of the trending topics in the past month was the intrinsic divide between athletes and NARPs on campus. For those who don’t know, NARP stands for “non-athletic regular person” (and those who haven’t heard it before are probably NARPs). 

Overall, athletes seemed to be the most engaged in this discussion, calling people “smelly NARPs” and voicing their disgust for non-athletes. However, there have also been many anti-athlete posts on Fizz, with a poll for “Biggest dicks on campus” that listed all Wesleyan sports teams as the only options. 

Screenshot of the first three posts Fizz shows after searching for “athlete."

The consensus seems to be that people were tired of the debate.

Two weeks ago, an anonymous user proposed campus borders for NARPs and Athletes, with Narpia taking essentially all of the dorm housing, Usdan, PAC, Olin, Allbritton, the CFA, and various other buildings. West Athlestan would encompass some of the woodframe houses and Freeman, whereas East Athlestan is implied to be Andrus Field (with the borders being undetermined as of now). 

The proposed layout seems to restrict the movement of athletes quite a bit, and does not account for the tennis courts on Vine St. What is your opinion on this “brilliant solution”?