Right, wrong, or *gasp* racist?

Pardon me, but isn't the job of higher education to educate? Anyway...being one of those who dropped out due to financial reasons, I'd like to say that the disservice being done here is not to the ones dropping out for financial reasons. The disservice is being done to those 'graduating' with little, or no, education above what they had when they entered.
 
Personally I think it's the school's business and nobody else's. If you were footing the bill would you want everyone else tell you how to spend it?
 
nodnod said:
Personally I think it's the school's business and nobody else's. If you were footing the bill would you want everyone else tell you how to spend it?
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Problem there is Rutgers is a State University and probablly gets oh say ~$300 dollars from the Feds . . . so it's not really his money
 
nodnod said:
Personally I think it's the school's business and nobody else's. If you were footing the bill would you want everyone else tell you how to spend it?
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WHen they use public funding, they have to listen.
 
Regardless I still think it should be up to the school. If they are going to make the school that much money it is a good investment for them. I think it's horrible if a person who happens to be with a majority group is more talented than a minority and doesn't get the scholarship instead. As long as it's pure skill that it's based on I say all the power to them.
 
nodnod said:
As long as it's pure skill that it's based on I say all the power to them.
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I agree. Do we give the free ride to the kid who may cure cancer or to the athlete who has trouble tying his show but makes an outstanding cornerback?
 
Gonz said:
I agree. Do we give the free ride to the kid who may cure cancer or to the athlete who has trouble tying his show but makes an outstanding cornerback?
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Who's to say there would be a free ride for the kid who could cure cancer if there were no athletes to give it to? They may not give out a scholarship in it's place period. Or they could just make it fair to everyone and not give out scholarships at all.
 
Bottom line is that the college/university has a mandate to educate the people therein. If those people aren't getting the education, then you have a problem. Might as well print the diploma on toilet paper, cause thats what its worth...and it has a 'halo' effect on all other diplomas handed out to the grads. ;)
 
They'll pay for that "degree" once they graduate, rest assured. Sure, they didn't pay to go to school and didn't really learn anything, but that piece of paper means nothing if you can't back it up.

In short, you'll be seeing some of those star college quarterbacks flipping burgers post-degree because they weren't given a bid for a national team and lack proper interview and/or life skills.
 
I see absolutely no racist comments in the article, but I do see an educator pissed off at the way scholarships are doled out.
 
unclehobart said:
...but it will classify the University as a football school in the minds of the public instead of the top 5% tier academic school they believe themselves to be... and if you really want to make the school a sport powerhouse, then you are after the best bodies... the mind is a secondary consideration...
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Tell that to the Duke basketball team. It IS possible to have both in the same student.
 
Yes. It is possible... but I think the Duke sports franchises are about to go through a dark age. Who wants to play for Duke now that the world knows how they get treated by the media, community, and the local DA?
 
I somehow don't think they'll be hurtin too bad. Yer a brainiac basketball player...you gonna go to Vandy or Stanford? Or go on to Duke and be on the telly every game?
 
"morals", and "ethics" have no meaning to some people.

My ex-girl friend had never heard the words before.
One reason we didn't stay together long.
 
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catocom said:
"morals", and "ethics" have no meaning to some people.

My ex-girl friend had never heard the words before.
One reason we didn't stay together long.
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I coulda swore I put this in the "Lowest of the low" thread.
That's where I meant to put it, not here.
 
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