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Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber (2000, Hardcover) 
Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber (2000, Hardcover)

 
Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber (2000, Hardcover)

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0805038647
ISBN-13: 9780805038644
Product ID: EPID693551
Description: This highly critical view of the influence of sports money on higher education takes the universities to task for using sports as a recruitment and marketing tool, and for tolerating Animal House-like behavior. In Sperber's view, this de...
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Synopsis
This highly critical view of the influence of sports money on higher education takes the universities to task for using sports as a recruitment and marketing tool, and for tolerating Animal House-like behavior. In Sperber's view, this dereliction of duty impacts especially on students at the undergraduate level.

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Publication Date:2000-09-01

Size
Length:322 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics.
Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve.
Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Beer and Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.

Industry Reviews
"It is hard to read Sperber's book without having a sinking feeling about the future of American culture. He has managed to document one facet of our national decline in painstaking detail, and the result is an admirable, timely and profoundly disturbing work."
New York Times Book Review - Morris Berman (09/17/2000)

"The case he marshals against these places "schools" scarcely seems the right word is overwhelming, a devastating condemnation of "higher education" in America."
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (09/24/2000)

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