On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, MICHAEL YATES <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote:
>
> This is a good article. College sports should be abolished. I was asked
> once to teach a course on the Pittsburgh campus of the University of
> Pittsburgh (I taught at a regional campus). There were three athletes in
> the course. One was an Olympic medalist. He never came to class, but he
> sent his wife one evening to take notes for him. Unfortunately it was a
> test day. I asked his wife if she was going to take the test. Last I heard
> from either of them. A second athlete was a star basketball player. He
> cheated on that exam. The third was a football player. He never came to
> class but phoned me after the last class asking if there was any way he
> could pass the course. He had, he said, been tied up in Texas on an assault
> charge after a game. I knew an athlete who guarded the dorm door while two
> friends raped a student. Nothing happened. And this could go on and on.
> Dave Zirin just wrote a column about how the presidents of Penn State and
> UC Davis were both on a task force on securi!
> ty set up by the FBI. Colleges are deeply embedded with the national
> security state, which is the embodiment of murder, torture, rape. It is
> good to see that some students are revolting. There is a lot to be revolted
> about.
>
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