[Magdalen] Major athletic scandal

[Jay Weigel]

Well, Kate, it's sad but true. There are better reports out there on the
UNC mess. I was looking for a link but can't find one right off the top of
my head. It is really sordid and has apparently been going on for as long
as 20 years.

Now, everyone knows, or should, that big-time athletes in schools with
big-time athletics programs get special treatment. That's pretty much a
given. They get special treatment all the way through school in some
systems. You could ask one of my friends, who was fired from her teaching
job in WV for refusing to change the grade of a *middle school* football
player, or I'm sure, teachers in Steubenville, OH, prior to the mess of a
couple of years ago, just for example. Every few years, something surfaces
out of a college program. I can't remember anything like this UNC business,
though....nothing as extensive or far reaching.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For some reason the phrase "Bread and Circuses" just came to mind...
> Sports mania and fast food? Keeping us distracted and oblivious to the
> important thing we're losing?
>
> Maybe because I watched "Wall-E" with my grandkids on Wednesday.
>
> G
>
> > On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/23/2014 10:10:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > few  members of U.N.C. sports teams >>>
> >
> > You know, I get pissed by the enormous attention athletes get  starting
> > at the high school level.  I guess this is heavily because I was  not
> > the least bit athletic.  OTOH, I excelled in speech, debate, sang in  the
> > high school choir, and played a mean Sousaphone in high school, and
> > you never saw anyone fawning over me or my peers.
> >
> > It's all part of this continued (male especially) fixation on sports,
> > particularly
> > football.(pronounced locally at a very fast, clipped  pace as  FUH-buh).
> >
> > I am naturally interested in the Big Ten, but I have to check on the
> > Notre Dame scores weekly so I can talk with any of the natives.  Ditto
> the
> > Eagles and the Steelers.  ("What do you think of those Eagles?")
> >
> > Of course they are fixated here on Penn State, but I have flags of
> > Wisconsin and Minnesota flying from my deck (I have degrees from both
> > schools) in order to shock the natives.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm not surprised at the athletes' fudged courses and grades.
> > The big money maker for colleges is football, and they'll do anything
> > to keep the teams going.
> >
> >
> >
> > D.
>