‘John Nichols, a retired journalism professor at Pennsylvania State University and co-founder of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, a faculty-led alliance that seeks changes, says the growing reliance by sports departments on university funds “can mean in many circumstances one more assistant coach and one less English professor teaching Shakespeare.” ‘

And one fewer professor teaching grammar.

Margaret Soltan, 8:27AM
Posted in: Scathing Online Schoolmarm, sport

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2 Responses to “‘John Nichols, a retired journalism professor at Pennsylvania State University and co-founder of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, a faculty-led alliance that seeks changes, says the growing reliance by sports departments on university funds “can mean in many circumstances one more assistant coach and one less English professor teaching Shakespeare.” ‘”

  1. Eveningsun Says:
    January 16th, 2013 at 10:20AM

    For an intelligent discussion of the use of “less,” see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    January 16th, 2013 at 10:24AM

    Thanks, Eveningsun.

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