UD‘s friend Jay Smith offers a very popular course on the history of college athletics that so terrifies faculty and administrators at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill — a place that felt perfectly comfortable offering for twenty years Julius Nyang’oro’s Bullshit for Jocks course — that they’ve cancelled it.
Ol’ UD is more than familiar with the Kafkaesque absurdities of football factories like UNC; but she will admit that the leadership of a school peeing itself at the thought of an eminent historian offering a course on a subject arguably more urgent than any other for corrupt jock-worshippers like UNC to think about is – well, hilarious. Truly a new low.
Here’s a school made sordid by athletics, and it’s now trembling at the possibility of merely thinking about the roots of its depravity.
Read the emails in this article.
June 2nd, 2017 at 3:47PM
I like the faculty protest letter: ” . . . freedom of inquiry, a fundamental feature . . . in every authentic university.” Wow. What a concept. Maybe my local Podunk Tech’ll adopt the idea.