Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education
A Philosophy, Nonfiction, Education book. In this book, Murray Sperber lives up to his sub-title and more...
In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, to argue that what universities offer instead of a meaningful undergraduate education 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. He explodes cherished myths about college sports, showing, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments.Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports and higher education comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students deprived of the education they deserve.Murray Sperber has been acknowledged for years as the country's leading authority on college sports and their role in American culture. In the wake of Indiana University's decision to fire head basketball coach Bobby Knight last year, Sperber was in constant demand across the...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780805068115 / 805068112
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The author does not mince words throughout this book attacking the failures of the NCAA and major college leaders in providing for and educating the undergraduate population. As a big college sports fan myself, he accurately describes what he calls "double think" by people like me find disgust with the current system (which has only... Pretty radical ideas... but some of the stats arguing against the machine of college sports are staggering. I recommend this, Haley recommended it to me :) In this book, Murray Sperber lives up to his sub-title and more in explaining that college sports in big time universities, along with university officials and careless professors, "are crippling undergraduate education." The title may suggest that it is only college sports "crippling" the undergraduate system, but also to blame is...
