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OverviewIn 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 IA 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 such TV-revenue-driven extravaganzas as ""March Madness"" and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? What is the moral for universities where big-time college sports have already become the primary source of institutional identity? ""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 IA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William C. Dowling (Rutgers)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.513kg ISBN: 9780271032931ISBN 10: 0271032936 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 05 July 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Lost in Loboland 2. The Birth of Rutgers 1000 3. The Friedman Statement 4. Warriors on the Web 5. The Coca-Cola University 6. Sportswriters in Wonderland 7. Sympathy for the Devil 8. “I Am an Alumni!” 9. The Hour of Victory 10. Requiem for Rutgers 1000 Epilogue: A View from the Banks Appendix: The Rutgers Review Interview Note on Sources Acknowledgments IndexReviews""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 which I benefited so much."" - Milton Friedman, Rutgers '32, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976"" 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 which I benefited so much. - Milton Friedman, Rutgers '32, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976 Author InformationWilliam C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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