Sarah Lawrence Needs a Rival Institution

Sofia Sklar ‘27 

I am so incredibly jealous of the rivalry between students at Ohio State and the University of Michigan. The huge football games, the crowds of students decked out in collegiate merchandise, and the entire show of a college rivalry. In my humble opinion, Sarah Lawrence College needs a rival. 

Apparently, we already have a few rivals. I say “apparently” because none of them are ‘real’ rivals. One of our so-called ‘college rivals’ is Vassar College, which is a joke. Every single student that I know was waitlisted from Vassar. I’ve also heard people say that our rival is NYU. I do not believe that in the slightest. I don’t think NYU even knows that we are their rival, which makes it kind of embarrassing. We need a rival who is going to actually know that we exist. 

As many of you might know, Sarah Lawrence is incredibly close to Iona University, one of the top-ranked Catholic universities in the United States of America. While we are very close to each other distance-wise, the ‘stereotypical’ students at our respective colleges could not be more different. Most students at Iona are highly composed – and usually heterosexual – business majors. Most students at Sarah Lawrence look like they barked at people in high school. 

Sarah Lawrence doesn’t have a football team so we couldn’t have a football game, but imagine how awesome it would be if we had the swim teams play against each other. No, they’re not swimming. They’re playing football. It would be totally awesome. 

This is a request to Iona University: Gryph Us a Chance!