{"id":132,"date":"2006-03-21T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/sports-in-college\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:00:41","slug":"sports-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/sports-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports in College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin at No Se Nada has a post up about <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/nosenada\/2006\/03\/carl_wieman_leaves_because_of.php\">Nobel laureate Carl Wieman leaving Colorado<\/a>, and how it relates to the role of college athletics at an educational institution. (Check his comments for a special bonus Carl Wieman anecdote.)<\/p>\n<p>Probably coincidentally, Timothy Burke at Swarthmore also has a post today about <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=162\">the role of college athletics<\/a>. Burke is my go-to guy for deep thoughts on the mission of academia, particularly in the small college context, and this piece is typically excellent:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I noted that it&#8217;s fairly odd in a way that so much fervor gets put into the debate over whether the professoriate is too liberal, or whether academic institutions are stagnant, and yet this topic gets glossed over by the usual suspects hammering on universities and colleges for their shortcomings. In scope and significance, there is much more to worry about in terms of athletics and academia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Happily, he doesn&#8217;t just take the knee-jerk &#8220;sports are dumb&#8221; position that is all too common among academics. Instead, he lays out the pros and cons of intercollegiate athletics in a very fair fashion, and offers a solution. I don&#8217;t entirely agree with his solution, but it&#8217;s a worthwhile read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin at No Se Nada has a post up about Nobel laureate Carl Wieman leaving Colorado, and how it relates to the role of college athletics at an educational institution. (Check his comments for a special bonus Carl Wieman anecdote.) Probably coincidentally, Timothy Burke at Swarthmore also has a post today about the role of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/sports-in-college\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports in College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}