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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education - Couverture souple

Sperber, Murray

 
9780805068115: Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
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ISBN 10 : 0805068112 ISBN 13 : 9780805068115
Editeur : Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject.

Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics.

Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve.
Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values.

Beer and Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Murray Sperber is a regular media commentator on college sports. A professor of English and American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, his books include College Sports, Inc.; Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sports; and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football.

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Éditeur
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805068112
ISBN 13 
9780805068115
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
322
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9780805038644: Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

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ISBN 10 :  0805038647 ISBN 13 :  9780805038644
Editeur : Henry Holt & Co, 2000
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