Football v. Academics
Here's an interesting article from Inside Higher Ed regarding Rutgers and their football team. While I know nothing about the specifics of the Rutgers situation, if the article's depiction of the discrepancies between cancelling classes, leaving faculty positions unfilled, etc. versus millions of dollars of support for football is even half-way correct, I can certainly sympathize with the Rutgers 1000. It very closely mirrors many of the feelings on my own campus where we started the Fall semester with a strike over wages at the same time that construction began on our own new multi-million dollar stadium. Not to mention the fact that our own football team just ended a 1-10 season....