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![]() State schools should not have sports programs. If a private uni wants to spend its tuition and endowments on sports, fine, but as a taxpayer I want my money that goes to a university to go to its stated purpose of education and getting slutty coeds to star in pornos.
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If we put money into the schools but the majority of that goes to sports making money... and then that money just goes to more sports and not y'know, new desks and books and shit, then what's the point? You're going to have a relatively small number of people that move on to play in College and Professionally, what about everyone else?
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The aspect of it I don't like is that colleges like mine are in an arms race when it comes to facilities, because we're all trying to attract the same cohort of bright and wealthy prospective students, and sometimes it really does come down to who has the nicer squash court. So the athletic facilities get overhauled way more than the academic buildings even though we're only D3. |
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![]() I just wanted to point out that even for schools that don't have a nationally competitive D1 brand, investment in athletics and related facilities can more than pay for itself. In principle the idea of graduating a lot of true scholar athletes is very appealing to me, but what happens in some of the bigger national programs where the academic requirements are extremely watered down to keep people focused on sports 24/7 isn't right at all.
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Plus it'd help if the local stuff were actually done... well. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...m-shuttered-a/
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http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue The Longhorns had about 10 million in profit from their athletic programs. Also, I've heard that basketball and football programs are pretty much the only profitable programs and they end up funding the other athletic programs. |
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![]() This is the section I'd really be interested in, how is the profit divided up?
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmo...college-level/ |
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![]() Mike Rowe gives good advice to people that can't find a job.
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![]() I think the federal government is trying to make people bad.
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![]() http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814...ulty-mentoring
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![]() Why would they do that?
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![]() The general consensus I've seen is that students with foreign names have their emails deleted because it's sometimes assumed they're asking for Visas or something.
Most of the time I would wager that it's unintentional though.
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![]() What about the female names and how are people with gender neutral names treated?
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![]() /shrug
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![]() "Stay humble" sounds like a nice and necessary message, but I won't watch the video so I can't say how well I like the way it's framed. I'm just going to choose to believe that it was well conceived and delivered.
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![]() Can dear, sweet Nazja or wise, kindly Kellick merge my thread with this one?
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/forums/...d.php?t=221306
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![]() I feel like it is a speech that could never happen on most college campuses but here it is a commencement speech. A lot of it boiled down to being a college graduate doesn't mean you can tell the non-college educated what to do. That good judgement comes from experience which comes from bad judgement. Sometimes you will be wrong and make mistakes. A lot of talking TV personalities that are only famous for being famous will tell you how to think but most of them couldn't even pass basic freshmen classes.
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![]() PajamaSalad is from America? I would have thought, like, Narnia.
I think social skills - ethics, emotional control, empathy, conflict resolution, and basic psychology should all be part of the early education system. |
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I think these kind of things are difficult to teach in a class room setting. They are the kind of things learned through experience. |
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![]() I forgot Internet Ettiquette, if they don't teach something like that in school these days then shame shame!
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