On Friday, Nov. 10, the Cornell Water Competency Graduation Requirement was updated according to “more modern water safety competency based on industry standards.” The new test requires students to ...

For the first time in two years, Cornellians are once again swimming 75 yards across the Helen Newman Hall pool in order to complete the swim test: one of two University-wide graduation requirements ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

Subject: Race on Campus: Why Colleges Are Dropping Their Swim Tests Welcome to Race on Campus. At one point or another, about a quarter of American colleges required students to pass a swim test.

PARIS (AP) — A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in the ...

ARANSAS PASS, Texas — Pools across the Coastal Bend are opening up for the summer season including the Aransas Pass Aquatic Center. Following last summer's tragic drowning of a child, the aquatic ...

It may take your brain a couple of laps to process that headline. Shanghai University recently announced it would hold its mandatory swimming test online; hilarity and pithy Internet commentary thus ...

If you are new to swimming and preparing for military swimming tests, you will encounter situations that have you guessing distances and times, depending on the pools where you practice and take the ...

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