Beer And Circus

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Beer and Circus
How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

Introduction pg. 3-11
• Four major student subcultures in American higher education: the collegiate, the academic, the vocational, and the rebel.
• The collegiate culture is a world of football, fraternities and sororities, dates, drinking, and campus fun.
• The serious undergraduates make up the outsiders on many campuses.
• The collegians practice immediate gratification while the outsiders practice deferred gratification.
• The academic culture is made up of the students who work hard and make the best grades. The undergraduate student subculture of serious academic effort is more dominant on some campuses than others and more marginal on some campuses than others.
• The vocational culture mainly consists of married students, most of them working 20-40 hours per week, and there is simply not enough time or money to support the extensive play of the collegiate culture.
• The rebel culture is made up of students who are deeply involved with ideas, both the ideas they encounter in the classroom and those that are current in the wider society of art, literature, and politics. Today, they make up a small minority on most college campuses.
• The best way to sum up these student subcultures is rebel students “pursue an identity”; collegians “pursue fun”; academic students seek “knowledge”; and vocationals fix on “a diploma.”

Part One: The Rise of Beer-And-Circus

Chapter 1: pg.15-22 Animal House
• 1960’s- low point for collegiate subculture on American campuses.
• Animal House is one of the most remarkable movies in Hollywood history.
• Fraternities and sororities doubled in membership nationwide from the 1970s to the 1990s.
• Penn State became known as “Happy Valley” because of the greek system and all the partying that went along with that.
• A film reviewer commented that Animal House ...