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Roger Dodger wrote:

And what of the money flushed down the basketball hoops and
football goalposts of schools, that could instead be spend on
labs and libraries?

This is one of my favorite sore pointz: taking a bunch of
IQ-75 DAFNz

What are DAFNz? Is this some anti-black racial comment?

Let me remind you that many, if not most, of the glorified
jocks happen to be white.

into the major universities, calling them "students"
merely for the purpose of having good football/basketball teams.

It happens in high school too. In many high schools, it's
*worse*. Far worse. I have yet to hear of any shooting
incident, related to jock bullying, in a university or college
rather than a high school.

(Mind you, increased maturity and voluntary attendance *might*
also have something to do with it.)

They all get "tutors" to do their homework and term paperz.

Because such good teams hype the alumni, get them donating lots
of money to the alma mater, that'z why. Ditto paying the coaches
five times as much as the president of the university, or dean of
the medical school. Absolutely disgraceful.

It'z academic prosititution, makes money so it'z OK.

Sports in academia are a nineteenth-century relic. It came from the
era of wealthy young "gentlemen" with more money than brains using
colleges as playgrounds. If students want to be well-rounded four-
letter-men, they can be so on their own time.

Universities are about INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.
If *MONEY* is what they are after, why not just open a casino and
whorehouse next to the campus and make some Really_Big_Money
while keeping the school academically and intellectually pure.

OK. I agree with this. After all, the proceeds from casinos and
other forms of gambling sometimes go towards charities.

Or how about a private institution, with no state or corporate
funding, offering pure (but expensive) forms of education
uncontaminated by sports or political correctness?