[Magdalen] Major athletic scandal

[James Oppenheimer]

Oh, I think it's fine to give attention to the athletes.  After all, we'll
be ordering "fries with that" from them the rest of their lives.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> 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 >>>
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> 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.
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> D.
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