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23%OFFWilliam C. Dowling - Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University - 9780271032931 - V9780271032931
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Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University

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Description for Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; JNMN; KNSP; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.

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 ... Read more

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 the New York Times called it when Milton Friedman issued his ringing statement: a struggle for the soul of a major university.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271032931
SKU
V9780271032931
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About William C. Dowling
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University
“Universities exist to transmit understanding and ideals and values to students . . . not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. . . . When I entered a much smaller Rutgers sixty years ago, athletics were an important but strictly minor aspect of Rutgers education. I trust that today’s much larger Rutgers will honor this tradition from ... Read more

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