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“The recent reorganization of major conferences is bizarre,” said Bennett. “Just the transportation expenses are completely unjustifiable; the outrageous salaries of college coaches … the exploitation of so many big-time college athletes, unpaid, often not especially encouraged to seriously advance their educations even as they advance the notoriety of their colleges.”

Well, yes… All of us with anything other than them itty bitty brains you see in the truly athletified recognize the Beckettian absurdity of big-time university sports. And it’s noble for Larry Bennett, a political science professor at DePaul, to go up against the surreal inevitability which is a new empty money-hemorrhaging basketball stadium there. But… you know…

There’s gonna be a university casino too! Bennett thinks

DePaul University should not be associated with it. […] By joining this project to DePaul we would be signaling that its institutional ethics are precariously situational.

But believe me, DePaul is so far past Bennett with this idea… I hear it’s looking into massage parlors too…

Margaret Soltan, May 28, 2013 2:03PM
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