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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

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805038647

ISBN-139780805038644

eBay Product ID (ePID)693551

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameBeer and Circus : How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

LanguageEnglish

SubjectBusiness Aspects, Sociology of Sports, Higher, Football, Administration / Higher

Publication Year2000

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Education

AuthorMurray Sperber

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight21.9 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-037021

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal796.04/3/0973

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisA 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 NumberGV351.S63 2000