Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University - Brossura

Dowling, William C.

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ISBN 10: 027105879X ISBN 13: 9780271058795

Casa editrice: Penn State University Press, 2007

Riassunto

In 1998, Milton Friedman’s statement drew national attention to Rutgers 1000, a campaign in which students, faculty, and alumni were resisting the takeover of their university by commercialized Division I-A athletics. Subsequently, the movement received extensive coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education,Sports Illustrated, and other publications.

Today, “big-time” college athletics remains a hotly debated issue at Rutgers. Why did an old eastern university that had long competed against such institutions as Colgate, Columbia, Lafayette, and Princeton, choose, by joining the Big East conference in 1994, to plunge into the world of such TV-revenue-driven extravaganzas as “March Madness” and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? What is the moral for universities where big-time college sports have already become the primary source of institutional identity?

Confessions of a Spoilsport is the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period of a major basketball scandal, was galvanized into action when Rutgers joined the Big East. It is also the story of the Rutgers 1000 students and alumni who set out against enormous odds to resist the decline of their university—eviscerated academic programs, cancellation of minor sports, loss of the “best and brightest” in-state students to the nearby College of New Jersey—while tens of millions of dollars were being lavished on Division I-A athletics. Ultimately, however, the story of Rutgers 1000 is what theNew York Times called it when Milton Friedman issued his ringing statement: a struggle for the soul of a major university.

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L'autore

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University and the 2012 recipient of the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for his contributions to the cause of integrity in intercollegiate athletics. Of the ten books he has published, the most recent include Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, and The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory.He has also written widely on college sports in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Educationand Academic Questions, and about challenges to the system of scholarly communication in theJournal of Scholarly Publishing.

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• Editore: Penn State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 027105879X
• ISBN 13: 9780271058795
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216