Beer And Circus

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will confirm every parent’s worst fear that they are paying $5,000 a year to send kids on a vacation called ‘college.’
• Laws came out in 84’ and 87’ to curtail drinking and set a mandatory drinking age but it did not do much of anything in slowing down this Animal House era on college campuses.
• During the 70’s and 80’s the old ritual of faculty bringing their undergraduate sons and daughters into the academic profession continued and this meant that the present university outsiders now selected the future outsiders.
• In the 1970’s and 80’s, when various university presidents attempted to exert control over “power coaches” or corrupt athletic departments, bad incidents often happened. Since these episodes often took place so frequently and had such negative effects upon schools and as it still continues today, an individual can only help but think that the gulf between the academic and collegiate subcultures will never go away.

Chapter 2: pg.23-32 College Sports Winners and Losers
• “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” –Quote by a U.S. President in office in the 1970’s.
• Thomas Ehrlich- president of Indiana University and Bob Knight – former Indiana Hoosiers basketball coach had a confrontation where Ehrlich did the politically correct thing but he still got fired as president of Indiana University because he was going up against Coach Knight, the most beloved college coach on the campus of Indiana University.
• Isaiah Thomas quotes “When you go to college, you’re not a student-athlete but an athlete-student.”
• A key event in the history of intercollegiate athletics that displays Thomas’s quote to a tea is in 1973, the NCAA changed athletic scholarships from guaranteed four-year awards to one-year renewable grants.
• Today and in years past, many college athletes regard their university years primarily as minor league training for the pros and sec...