Posted on 10/23/2014 7:34:25 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
Updates are a bit slow. “Anthrax Scare” is still listed as a hot topic.
Christine Hoffman wrote a great book addressing the pitiful inaccuracy of African American stuidies called “Not Out of Africa.”
Students shape their whole world view around lies and distortions and don’t have a clue that they have been tricked. It’s lies are so hateful of whites and so worshiping of Africans, it reminds one of a Hitler race studies equivalent. All the diversity studies follow the same pattern of these lying racist radicals.
I was surprised, when I read a lot of race studies books to find out what they were, the common thread of jealousy and hate is targeted against whites and JEWS!
Are we going to see a breakdown by ethnicity of who took those courses?
“The question I didn’t see any article ask was “were white athletes afforded the opportunity to take the bogus courses in black studies?””
I was only half listening to some commentary about this story, but I got the impression that only half of the fake grades/degrees were awarded to athletes. If so, who were the rest of the beneficiaries of this fraud?
I started noticing the baskets I bought were no longer made in North Carolina....
A question that shall not be asked. A truth that shall not be spoken. (But one can always hope.)
In other news, rain is wet.
I would confidently speculate that the amount of useful information attained in an African Studies class is the same whether you are awake or asleep.
Well, here we are back to the old “What is the purpose of a college education?” debate.
When college football started, there was no NFL. When college basketball started, there was no NBA. Team sports at the universities were meant to “develop” the student. The student would learn the importance of teamwork and practice and discipline. Their minds would be healthier because their bodies would be healthier. Look at college sports now. Do you see that philosophy?
If they are from inner cities and not close to being considered scholars, why are they even in college at all?
Reminds me of the phrase "If you don't have time to do it right, when are you going to have time to do it again ?"
FR does have an EDIT button. Matter of fact, you cannot compose a reply and just HIT POST. It FORCES you to hit PREVIEW or at least HIT POST a second time before it will allow the reply to be POSTED.
If you choose NOT to proofread your own reply, then the PROBLEM is YOU, not FR.
Now, sometimes you preview your post and still don't find your own error. That happens to many folks. Many would like to GO BACK and EDIT a former post. Sounds like a good idea, at first.
The problem is that some posters would take advantage of this to CHANGE their comments after getting caught either lying or misleading.
We already have a problem with people denying their words, even when they are RIGHT THERE and can be SHOWN to them.
There is nothing wrong with making a post to correct a previous post, as we do now. It's like an audit trail. If something gets changed AFTER it gets recorded, we need to know that it got changed and why.
My very thought too.
Now we know why there is no Obama Scholarly Paper Trail.
Well said. The athletic scholarship programs are a joke.
I’m in your camp.
Why the charade of attending class at all? They’re not students — they’re athletes. College football is a seventy-hour-a-week job. Workouts, practice, travel, games. That’s all these guys do. If you sleep eight hours a night, the week is done.
I know of a football player at UCLA who declined the course schedule the athletic director had set up for him. He chose his own classes instead. At the subsequent sit-down, the coach insisted that “their” schedule would “allow him to fully function as member of the team.” (Read: no coursework, guaranteed ‘A’) The player stuck to his own schedule of real classes and was kicked off the team.
They didn’t dare yank his scholarship for fear of the bad publicity. He got his free education.
College athletes should be relieved of the fake “student” conceit, and they should be paid — a lot. They should also be allowed to license their names to Nike, etc. Most won’t go pro and will never have the chance to make this kind of money again. Why shouldn’t they share in the wealth they’re creating?
Oh, I know. The NCAA doesn’t want to cut the athletes in on the TV revenue. But players strike one season should do it.
Its been five hours, can I come out of my room now?
Roy Williams denied knowing any of this when a former UNC basketball player said exactly the same thing about ‘ghost classes’ Its just not the football team.
My how time flies when you're having fun. Well, I was anyway.
I did come on a little strong, but my intention was to answer the question of many posters who ask the same question.
The important thing (to me anyway) is do you (and all Freepers/Lurkers) see why we can't have a Mulligan Button ?
P.S. Thanks for being a good sport.
As for the proven wrong part, that's why I'm here. I am the first to congratulate someone who changes my mind ... after that's how I grew out of the liberal mindset that I picked up in college.
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