Controversy in Athletics and Academics?
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This is a hot-button issue that's a bit more comlicated than it looks on the surface.\nYou really can't blame schools for doing that, though -- athletic functions bring in the money as fast as the schools spend it, and for colleges, it's a big way to boost admissions.\nConsider UNC Chapel Hill, the beloved home of the Carolina Tar Heels, where my husband went. They promote their school to fans of their team, by saying, "hey, if you're a full time student here, you can come to all the home games for free." I personally know two people who enrolled at that school just for that reason. Same thing for Duke and Wake Forest.\nThe fact of it is, if people bought tickets to see scholastic tournaments, schools would promote them more. But scholastic competitions don't draw big crowds, and thus don't make any money for the schools. If people idolized academic achievers the way they idolize athletes, the schools would be more geared toward academics. They're simply giving us what we ask for.\nHere are some websites to help with your research:
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In defence of the Arts, I'll pretend you asked, "Is academia about research or protecting the reputation of the Professors?"\n\nDepends on the institute. If it's of a professional standard and publishing regularly, then regardless of what the professors would have their students and subordinates do, external critics from other institutes will waste no mercy on poor quality research.
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The order and events can vary from state to state. It's set by the governing body for athletics in your state.
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Who told you that it's not a sport? It's both athletic and aesthetic. Don't listen to anybody who criticizes your sport, or anything else that you do. After all, who cares what some small-minded pinhead thinks?
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No.  Scholarships are based on talent.\n\nFrankly, I think sports scholarships should be done away with.  In many countries they are actually illegal and the focus of college is on education and sports is only of secondary concern.
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There is an old saying that has applied to athletes over the years--it applied to Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, and it applies to TO\n\n"You can take the boy out of the ghetto, but you can never take the ghetto out of the boy."\n\nSadly, this has led to the demise of several athletes who otherwise could have been great, but their personal issues prevented them from ever rising about their bad upbringing.
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You know, I have been asking myself that for quite some time; Pep rallies to pep up the team and make the school look good while we miss academic opportunity! I think that the school system wants to make the school appear happy and normal, while having school spirit. I think that they know that academics aren't really going to differ drastically so they focus on sports. If you think about it, everything a school does is to make the faculty look good, such as the TAKS tests and grades in general, as well as attendance, etc.
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It’s hard to walk through campus these days without thinking of summer. Bascom Hill has become a sea of sunbathers, T-shirts have emerged from their North Face shells and Frisbees fill the streets. It’s inescapable. And with the signs of summer comes another inescapable thought — baseball.\n\nThe Madness of March has run its course, the football team is back on the field for spring workouts, and fans around the country shift their attention from the arena to the ballpark. It’s baseball season.\n\nThe Big Ten is currently four games into its conference schedule, with Illinois and Minnesota tied atop the standings. College baseball is in full swing from Penn State to Iowa, with one notable exception. The University of Wisconsin is the only Big Ten school that does not field a varsity baseball team.\n\nThis is nothing new. Baseball has been relegated to the club ranks at UW for years, and for years campus sports editors have taken up the cause. The Athletic Department is well aware of the situation.\n\nThe powers that be are not on some kind of anti-baseball crusade. They don’t hate baseball or apple pie, and they did not disband the program to promote a hidden softball agenda. Their hands are tied by Title IX, an outdated piece of legislation that has claimed men’s soccer programs throughout the NCAA and all but outlawed men’s volleyball in the Midwest. Barry Alvarez and company undoubtedly want to bring baseball to Madison, but they must navigate through a myriad of economic obstacles to make it happen.\n\nWisconsin is one of just six Big Ten schools to field a men’s hockey team and one of eight to field a men’s soccer team. Only five Big Ten universities offer both. To introduce a varsity baseball program while maintaining both hockey and soccer and keeping funding at its current level for major programs like football and basketball, the Athletic Department will have to get creative.\n\nThe move carries economic and political implications which cannot be overlooked. Changing the athletic budget is no small matter, and Alvarez must not do so without considering the impact it will have on everyone involved. Title IX complicates the situation, forcing universities to abide by an artificial financial standard rather than allocating funding freely to fit the needs of its teams.\n\nEstablishing a baseball team will require adept manipulation of funding and a measure of compromise. To start a baseball team, Wisconsin must either scale back funding for existing men’s programs or increase funding for women’s programs.\n\nThe move may involve either adding women’s teams or cutting men’s teams. The drawbacks of both are clear. The former will increase the total budget of the Athletic Department, and the money must come from somewhere. The latter will end a men’s sports program, which is a drawback in itself.\n\nTitle IX has placed the Athletic Department in a difficult position. There is no easy solution here. But it can be done.\n\nEvery other school in the Big Ten has found a way to support a baseball team without running afoul of Title IX. Five have managed to do so without sacrificing hockey or soccer. Each school has taken a different approach, but one way or another they have all worked it out.\n\nPurdue, Illinois and Northwestern opted to streamline their athletic departments. While all three found room for baseball, the universities each support fewer than 20 teams. None of the three schools fields a men’s hockey team, and only Northwestern offers men’s soccer.\n\nOhio State and Penn State took the opposite approach. These schools decided to expand their operations to accommodate Title IX, pumping extra funds into the women’s programs to allow them a proportional increase in men’s funding. The remaining six Big Ten schools fall within these two extremes.\n\nOhio State boasts the Big Ten’s most bloated athletic department, with 36 teams (17 men’s teams, 19 women’s). In order to make the nu
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Here is a discussion on this topic for you:\n\nhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/archive/index.php/t-19444.html
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http://www.allabilities.com/sports.html\n\nHope someone has a more definitive answer for you.  The above link is a source of information that might help.
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Visit the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) site... I know they have a table that provides rates for individual schools, and I think they also provide rates based on particular sports, gender, and race...I also know that Stanford is praised for the very high graduation rates of its Black athletes
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I don't agree that athletes aren't smart, but I do agree that they receive preferential treatment. In my highschool, athletes generally do not receive penalties for wrongdoings, such as lateness, truancy, academic failures, and crimes against teachers and students. In college, athletes receive first choice on course registration, housing, and sometimes grading curves. I'm not saying all schools do this, but the ones I attended certainly did.\n\nIn my schools, it was because athletics are an important part of the school's image. Schools look more competant and successful when their sports teams are winning. If athletes had to miss practice because they have a conflicting exam or they were late for school too many times, that would trickle down and reflect poorly on the school's image. \n\nThe American dream is to seem successful, powerful, and physically fit, especially for youth, so this is valued above many other talents. But it goes the same for other students in prominent positions, like the Harvard-bound straight-A students in highschool (where their downfalls get swept under the carpet) or students who hold office in college organizations.\n\nI wouldn't say that all athletes get treatment they don't deserve, though, because it's really just the stereotypical "jocks" that stand out to us non-athletes. It's always the obnoxious, cocky football player that fails all his exams, but always passes his courses. But he's just one member of the team. The good guys who work hard both in the classroom and on the field end up with a bad rep because of the team slackers.
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Tark the Shark....I think he should be, but he's too controversial for most people, especially those in the NCAA.
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Athletes are getting better and better but their cheating the game. It has gotten to the point that any time someone has done something great, people in the back of their heads are saying" Are they on steriods?" People/Fans are always going to wonder, this was never like this 10 years ago, but now, its a main stay in all sports. Unfortunitly it has really hindered sports, esp baseball, with the whole Barry Bonds thing.
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I don't see a problem.  It's not like you're saying "all black athletes are better than white athletes" or "all white students are better than black students."  However, the conclusions you draw by looking at a small sample of athletes or a pile of numbers are somewhat faulty.  Here's why:  Yes, there are a lot more black athletes in the NBA than white athletes, but how many black hockey players do you know?  They are some of the strongest, fastest, toughest guys on the planet.  Also, it may be true that statistics show blacks as not scoring as high on aptitude tests than whites, but we have charter schools in Detroit that are 95% black students (or better) and these kids are scoring higher on the SAT/ACT than their white counterparts in the suburban Christian academies.  My point is this:  Be careful about making general comments about any given race, and try to look at the whole picture when using "evidence" to back up your claims.
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all my years of playing high school sports, i had problems with the refs and their calls but i just accepted it as a part of the game. players having rights changes the uniformity of the game. there is a set standard that every player knows and follows. its not like the refs are doing anything personal in making calls. they just go with what they think best follows the rules of the game to make it a fair competitive environment. i dont think its worth it to protest.
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I'm not aware that folks actually 'compare' them - folks simply have an opinion of which they prefer.\n\nTo say one is better than the other is pointless as they are very different sports with different athletic requirements no more no less.