And how much do rock climbing skills prepare one for a good career. That category of people need need exactly the opposite of sports training.
For resume-filling, I just can’t recall anyone ever using rock-climbing as a ‘line’.
I’d be curious if they had some Latino rock climbing expert...especially at Cornell.
ROTC programs usually offer Freshman and Sophomore level courses which are mandatory for ROTC scholarship students as open electives to non-scholarship students to satisfy PE requirements. Typically these include orienteering, marksmanship, mountaineering, and such. I have no problem with a school offering a rock climbing course as a single credit PE class, and for many college age kids would likely encourage them to push themselves outside their comfort zones, build their confidence in themselves and teach an actual (though somewhat esoteric) skill.
Obviously segregating it by race is a problem. A big problem. But having a rock climbing class in and of itself is not an issue.