fair warning: on block island or manhattan or in missouri, we can be a little salty
11.11.2011
disquiet on campus
You have to ask yourself how sports became so important to Americans that university endowments are based on football teams.
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a biologist
said...
Claudia, did you know this story?
When HGD was a tenured professor at U of Arkansas the faculty proposed that instead of having sports teams the university sponsor a stable of racehorses. Faculty rationale was: "At least we won't have to have them in our classes."
The motion was dismissed, but it still makes a good story. We are, and always have been, a sports mad culture. Wste of time to me, but I'm in the minority.
2 comments:
Claudia, did you know this story?
When HGD was a tenured professor at U of Arkansas the faculty proposed that instead of having sports teams the university sponsor a stable of racehorses. Faculty rationale was: "At least we won't have to have them in our classes."
The motion was dismissed, but it still makes a good story. We are, and always have been, a sports mad culture. Wste of time to me, but I'm in the minority.
I'm in the same minority...I didn't even know what sports were (I never participated) until I started dating a hockey fan in my late teens...go figure
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