Econ professor Mark Killingsworth is one of this blog’s heroes. He’s that rare faculty member who takes up arms against his sports-mad school’s arms race. Killingsworth happens to teach at Rutgers, which means he gets to witness both athletic scandals that make his school a national laughingstock and relentless wasting of student and tax dollars on football and basketball. He has now helped lead the Faculty Senate to issue a set of recommendations that you can read here.
Glance at even a few of the recommendations and you’ll see that there’s no way in hell jockshop Rutgers is going to take any of them seriously:
• Rutgers Athletics should design and enforce a five-year plan to eliminate all financial
losses;• No capital investment (expansion or new construction of Athletics facilities)
should be undertaken until the Athletics deficit is eliminated;• No allocations from student fees should be used to finance Athletics…
Yadda yadda. The list assumes the Rutgers leadership gives a shit about much beyond ball games. The president will thank the professors for their very interesting thoughts and ignore everything on the list.
And that’s why Killingsworth is a hero. He dreams the impossible dream.
March 28th, 2015 at 6:43PM
At one time, it was considered impossible that African Americans would attend the University of Mississippi/Alabama.