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Saturday, July 22, 2006
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More on Auburn "Gundlach's whistle blowing [he's the Auburn professor who uncovered the sociology department's Directed Reading scam] attracted the attention of a congressional committee. He claims committee members are looking at doing away with the tax exempt status of college sports because there seems to be evidence that athletes who get scholarships don't get a college education." Well, who knows if Gundlach's on to anything at all in this claim. What interests UD is the simplicity of the thought: 1.) Taxpayers are paying for college educations. 2.) College educations are not being received. 3.) Congress will therefore stop asking taxpayers to pay for college educations. Sure, a certain percentage of taxpayers doesn't give a shit about this, happy to subsidize jocks who are enrolled by universities and jollied along, rather in the way Barney the dinosaur jollies along the kids who dance and sing with him in his tv studio. But other people can be made to see and resent this use of their money. Anyway, now that Auburn's again been caught with its head up its ass, it must try to assume a more dignified posture. Its interim president is quoted: "Dr. Richardson says the university is not waiting until the [internal] investigation is complete to take action. He says, 'I want to ensure that every course at Auburn is taught with the academic rigor that students should expect and they deserve.'" It takes a lot more than a weak interim president at a place proud of being a sports factory to inaugurate academic rigor. As Auburn bids a sad farewell to Professor Petee's directed readings, it will soon enough find another way to game things. |