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CONFESSIONS OF A SPOILSPORT
MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES FIGHTING SPORTS CORRUPTION AT AN OLD EASTERN UNIVERSITY |
| By: |
William C. Dowling |
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Hardback |
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0271032936 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780271032931 |
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| Publisher: |
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 July, 2007 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Synopsis: |
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 IA 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 IA 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. |
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10 Halftones, black and white |
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US |
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Pennsylvania State University Press |
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