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Beer and Circus : How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805038647
ISBN-13
9780805038644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
693551

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Beer and Circus : How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Business Aspects, Sociology of Sports, Higher, Football, Administration / Higher
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Author
Murray Sperber
Subject Area
Sports & Recreation, Education
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-037021
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
796.04/3/0973
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight outof today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Bear & Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.
LC Classification Number
GV351.S63 2000

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