University Diaries » ‘Every college welcomes questionable characters to campus if they can run 4.4 40s and bench press a Coke machine. Some, like Dalvin Cook, grow up and flourish. Others, like Aaron Hernandez, make a mockery of the term “student-athlete.” Then there are places like Baylor, which turned into a criminal enterprise in pursuit of football glory.’

UD at Inside Higher Ed About Margaret Soltan Other Writings Subscribe to UD's Feeds

← Previous Post: “Stripped of their ability to feel.” | Next Post: Its beloved coach sexually assaulting boys in a campus shower; its last president convicted of child endangerment; fraternity brothers stripping unconscious women students and then publishing naked photos of them on social media; fraternity brothers stepping over the dying body of a pledge all night until he dies of neglect… →

‘Every college welcomes questionable characters to campus if they can run 4.4 40s and bench press a Coke machine. Some, like Dalvin Cook, grow up and flourish. Others, like Aaron Hernandez, make a mockery of the term “student-athlete.” Then there are places like Baylor, which turned into a criminal enterprise in pursuit of football glory.’

Baylor: A criminal enterprise and a noisily self-regarding Christian university.

Rather like Bernard Madoff and Orthodox Judaism.

There’s everything to be said, criminal-enterprise-wise, for a covering of piety.

Margaret Soltan, May 5, 2017 7:38AM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

Trackback URL for this post:
https://www.margaretsoltan.com/wp-trackback.php?p=54949

Comment on this Entry

Search

Latest UD posts at IHE

Read more UD at IHE…

Archives

2024 (238)
2023 (733)
2022 (852)
2021 (751)
2020 (789)
2019 (753)
2018 (803)
2017 (749)
2016 (863)
2015 (861)
2014 (1052)
2013 (1019)
2012 (1187)
2011 (1399)
2010 (1372)
2009 (1450)
2007 (1)

Categories

University Diaries is powered by WordPress
Report web site problems to [email protected]