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Monday, November 27, 2006
Thou Shalt Have Only One God, And His Name Shall Be....... GODZILLATRON A recent NCAA report about college athletics "has 13 glossy, full-page photographs of athlete-students either competing in sports events or studying among Greek columns, library stacks, laboratory flasks or computer terminals. Four pages give a photographic rogues’ gallery of smiling presidents and chancellors," writes Tom Palaima of the University of Texas, who has the stomach to analyze this sort of thing closely. The buoyant nothingness of the report sinks a bit when its authors mark the American university professor's non-sporting ways. Year after year faculty are invited to share a world of high definition cretinism and corruption, and the fuckers just won't play along. Details from Palaima's own UT: ...The head football coach at UT now makes a base salary of $2.55 million per year. By comparison, the entire instructional budget (faculty salaries and other teaching-related expenses) of UT’s number-one ranked petroleum engineering department is only $2 million. The average salaries of the 11 assistant football coaches last year easily outstripped the average salaries of full professors in our law school, the highest paid full professors at our institution. The NCAA report says that part of the reason faculty members are "uninformed" and "biased, ... attack[ing] athletics unfairly," is that they don't understand the "hierarchical, top-down nature of campus administrations." Faculty need to look at the campus salary pyramid and show a little respect. UD read somewhere of a monastic order whose members, while laboring in the vineyards, repeatedly shout: "All for Jesus! All for Jesus!" UD proposes that faculty put themselves in a more reverent mood by shouting, through their campus hours, "All for Coaches! All for Coaches!" |