Title

Beer and circus : how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education

Description

Murray Sperber takes us beyond the headlines and the public controversies to explore the profound and tragic impact of big-time intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate education. Sperber explodes cherished myths about college sports, particularly at Big-time U's," the large public research universities with high-profile men's football and basketball teams playing at the top level of the NCAA."."Using research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, Sperber proves that many schools, because of their emphasis on research and graduate programs, no longer give the majority of their undergraduates a meaningful education. What they offer instead is a meager and dangerous substitute: the party scene surrounding college sports that Sperber calls "beer and circus" and which serves to keep the students happy while tuition dollars keep rolling in."."Sperber explains how this beer-and-circus scene has evolved over many generations. He details the pernicious roles of the media and corporations looking to tap into the lucrative student market, raising the particular concern of the current epidemic of student binge drinking, which in many ways results from these complex factors."--BOOK JACKET.

Identifier

896740

805038647

Creator

Sperber, Murray A

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2000

Program air date: November 26, 2000

Publisher

H. Holt

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front and back endpapers concerning the four major student subcultures: collegiate, academic, vocational, and rebel, alumni giving, Greek organizations in the university system, alcohol consumption by college students, the media and college sports, cheating and grade inflation, Thomas Erlich and Bobby Knight from Indiana University, and the NCAA. Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. Brian Lamb asks: "How angry are you about the current state of education?" "What is the student - athlete ideal?" "Who are the Big Time U's?" "U.S. news - what's the impact?" Autograph to Brian Lamb from the author on the title page.

Subject

"College sports--United States--History."

"College sports--Economic aspects--United States."

"College sports--Moral and ethical aspects--United States."

"Universities and colleges--United States--Administration."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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