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How Big-time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
Owl Books
September 2001
352 pages ISBN: 0805068112 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research
culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the
country, to argue that what universities offer instead of a
meaningful undergraduate education is a meager and dangerous
substitute: the party scene surrounding college sports that
Sperber calls "beer and circus" and which serves to keep the
students happy while tuition dollars keep rolling in. He
explodes cherished myths about college sports, showing, for
instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming
in to universities from sports programs never makes it to
academic departments. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports and
higher education comes straight out of today's headlines and
opens our eyes to a generation of students deprived of the
education they deserve. Murray Sperber has been acknowledged for years as the
country's leading authority on college sports and their role
in American culture. In the wake of Indiana University's
decision to fire head basketball coach Bobby Knight last
year, Sperber was in constant demand across the country--on
television, radio, and print media--to comment on the
profound and tragic impact of big-time intercollegiate
athletics on higher education.
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