Re: No Genius Left Behind

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Roger Dodger wrote:

> > And what of the money flushed down the basketball hoops and
> > football goalposts of schools, that could instead be spend on
> > labs and libraries?
> 
> This is one of my favorite sore pointz: taking a bunch of
> IQ-75 DAFNz

What are DAFNz?  Is this some anti-black racial comment?

Let me remind you that many, if not most, of the glorified
jocks happen to be white.

> into the major universities, calling them "students"
> merely for the purpose of having good football/basketball teams.

It happens in high school too.  In many high schools, it's
*worse*.  Far worse.  I have yet to hear of any shooting
incident, related to jock bullying, in a university or college
rather than a high school.

(Mind you, increased maturity and voluntary attendance *might*
also have something to do with it.)

> They all get "tutors" to do their homework and term paperz.
 
> Because such good teams hype the alumni, get them donating lots
> of money to the alma mater, that'z why.  Ditto paying the coaches 
> five times as much as the president of the university, or dean of 
> the medical school.  Absolutely disgraceful.
> 
> It'z academic prosititution, makes money so it'z OK.

Sports in academia are a nineteenth-century relic.  It came from the
era of wealthy young "gentlemen" with more money than brains using
colleges as playgrounds.  If students want to be well-rounded four-
letter-men, they can be so on their own time.

> Universities are about INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.
> If *MONEY* is what they are after, why not just open a casino and
> whorehouse next to the campus and make some Really_Big_Money
> while keeping the school academically and intellectually pure.
 
OK.  I agree with this.  After all, the proceeds from casinos and
other forms of gambling sometimes go towards charities.

Or how about a private institution, with no state or corporate
funding, offering pure (but expensive) forms of education
uncontaminated by sports or political correctness?