> About 20 years or so ago I had in freshman comp at Illinois State a young
> black man who had been the first black quarterback at the University of
> Iowa. (The Iowa fans booed him.) His second year there he injured himself
> and for awhile was confined to a wheel chair. He lost his scholarship; but
> worse: they wanted him to pay back some fees of some sort -- I forget the
> details. And until he paid them they would not send his records to any other
> school.
This is a good example of the systematic brutish heartlessness of the Credentialling Sector (CS) in general. It's not just the Unis -- it starts in kindergarten. And it's not confined to athletes.
The CS is best viewed, I think, as a kind of counterpart or good-cop analogue to the Enforcement/Incarceration Sector. And of course as we have seen in recent days, on the East Coast and the West, the two sectors maintain a very close and amiable and mutually-reinforcing relationship.
What's funny about Katha is that she doesn't believe in college sports, but she believes strongly in college, and the most cop-like aspects of college. No grade inflation! No gut courses!
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