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Sto caricando le informazioni... Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University (Penn Statedi William C. Dowling
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a book that I admit appealed to me because I knew it would confirm what I had long known as an alumnus and former tutor for the athletic department. But it is so much better than that. Dowling does a fine job of detailing the pernicious effects of big-time sports on a university and what happened when Rutgers sold its soul to Div. 1-A. He explains the way that the theory of peer effects works on a school; his use of the "dollar auction game," used by economists to explain how rational people will engage in irrational behavior is perfectly apt. He also debunks every canard of those who think a new stadium is as important as hiring new professors, from "the Flutie effect" to "Everybody knows O.J." And the telling of the tale has a few terrific plot twists that I won't reveal here. Any Rutgers alumnus or anyone wanting an example of flat-out good writing should read it. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1998, Milton Friedman's statement drew national attention to Rutgers 1000, a campaign in which students, faculty, and alumni were resisting the takeover of their university by commercialized Division I-A athletics. Subsequently, the movement received extensive coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. Today, "big-time" college athletics remains a hotly debated issue at Rutgers. Why did an old eastern university that had long competed against such institutions as Colgate, Columbia, Lafayette, and Princeton, choose, by joining the Big East conference in 1994, to plunge into the world of such TV-revenue-driven extravaganzas as "March Madness" and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? What is the moral for universities where big-time college sports have already become the primary source of institutional identity? Confessions of a Spoilsport is the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period of a major basketball scandal, was galvanized into action when Rutgers joined the Big East. It is also the story of the Rutgers 1000 students and alumni who set out against enormous odds to resist the decline of their university--eviscerated academic programs, cancellation of minor sports, loss of the "best and brightest" in-state students to the nearby College of New Jersey--while tens of millions of dollars were being lavished on Division I-A athletics. Ultimately, however, the story of Rutgers 1000 is what the New York Times called it when Milton Friedman issued his ringing statement: a struggle for the soul of a major university. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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