A letter to the University of Minnesota paper from a Minnesota graduate:
Those who care more about education at the University of Minnesota than how its sports teams do will want to check out a report on athletes’ graduation rates and related topics from the March 18 PBS NewsHour.
Only The Minnesota Daily had the courage to prepare a comprehensive report on the University athletics department. The gutless Star Tribune and Pioneer Press took a pass, since they revere intercollegiate athletics and apparently are willing to tolerate failure in the classroom and misbehavior off the field as the price a school pays for hiring “student-athletes.”
If you are fed up with embarrassing, costly, anti-education intercollegiate sports at the University, now is the time to express your thoughts to Gov. Tim Pawlenty and your elected state senators and representatives. Demand a halt to the misuse of your taxpayer dollars and a public investigation by the Legislature into the future of big-time sports at the University.
Will Shapira, University alumnus
Will needs to get his head out of the clouds and start caring about what really counts: Should rich people be allowed to get blasted at the new stadium?