Intellectual Elitist College administrators gone wild

[HTHog]

Watch out, the intellectual elite going to try to turn this country into a geek fest.

When the Faculty Lounge Goes After College Sports

A growing number of college administrators are trying to convince students, alumni, and donors that the time has come to eliminate college sports. Dozens of universities — including Brown, Michigan State, William & Mary, Iowa, and George Washington — have abruptly eliminated scores of athletic...

news.yahoo.com

 

[Mhhoover92]

Why are the dumbest people in higher ed? Sign of the times ol boy. At least you’ll be able to cash in that social security soon. I’ll never see mine

 

[Corporal Upham]

Good luck.

 

[SouthTulsaHog]

Why are the dumbest people in higher ed? Sign of the times ol boy. At least you’ll be able to cash in that social security soon. I’ll never see mine

That’s what happens when you stay in your own elitist bubble. You do dumb shit like this

 

[anon_tmdio4dg73n6j]

Nothing like status-driven egomaniacs destroying the fabric of what makes life worth living. Status, like ego, is an illusion. We are all protuberances of the universe, nothing more.

 

[Mhhoover92]

Nothing like status-driven egomaniacs destroying the fabric of what makes life worth living. Status, like ego, is an illusion. We are all protuberances of the universe, nothing more.

 

[Chauvinist Pig]

Watch out, the intellectual elite going to try to turn this country into a geek fest.

When the Faculty Lounge Goes After College Sports

A growing number of college administrators are trying to convince students, alumni, and donors that the time has come to eliminate college sports. Dozens of universities — including Brown, Michigan State, William & Mary, Iowa, and George Washington — have abruptly eliminated scores of athletic...

news.yahoo.com

Those people are, dare I say it, re-tard-ed in a disgustingly educated way.

 

[HTHog]

We are all protuberances of the universe, nothing more.

Are you one of them?

Da fuq is that word doing on this board?

 

[HTHog]

10/10 ol' boy.

10/10

 

[anon_tmdio4dg73n6j]

Are you one of them?

Da fuq is that word doing on this board?

I am nothing.

 

[HTHog]

I am nothing.

But you just got thru saying you were a preturbulence

 

[anon_tmdio4dg73n6j]

But you just got thru saying you were a preturbulence

Perhaps you misunderstand. I am the universe experiencing itself. I am everything and nothing.

 

[Mhhoover92]

PRETURBULENCE

 

[HTHog]

Perhaps you misunderstand. I am the universe experiencing itself. I am everything and nothing.

 

[anon_tmdio4dg73n6j]

 

[Bbyrd0428]

Those people are, dare I say it, re-tard-ed in a disgustingly educated way.

 

[fisherhog]

Was that article satire? Has to be right?



Or am I preturbulence?

 

[minnesotahog]

Why are the dumbest people in higher ed? Sign of the times ol boy. At least you’ll be able to cash in that social security soon. I’ll never see mine

Cause when you’re a lob, it doesn’t take talent to succeed. All u have to do is be fake and not use ur brain, not have any original or new ideas, and certainly not challenge their authority and you’ll be fine. That’s actually pretty damn easy to do.

 

[Lowcountry Hog]

I’ve read people on here for college football leaving the “corrupt NCAA.”

It’s only a matter of time before football and basketball resemble the European club model.

 

[kizersozehog]

At the risk sounding like a major ahole: this is nothing but a bunch of jealous nerds that have never been good at anything but school. These sports programs bring opportunity to thousands of kids a year that otherwise never would have been able to afford college. Bring in millions of dollars for the schools, and give them an infinite amount of recognition. Not to mention the diversity among the student population, which they claim they want (lies).
They're jealous the athletes get the attention. That's the whole reason behind this. A bunch of jealous, petulant nerds. It's perfectly representative of this bullshit society we live in. Both over-educated and painfully stupid at the same time.

 

[HTHog]

At the risk sounding like a major ahole: this is nothing but a bunch of jealous nerds that have never been good at anything but school. These sports programs bring opportunity to thousands of kids a year that otherwise never would have been able to afford college. Bring in millions of dollars for the schools, and give them an infinite amount of recognition. Not to mention the diversity among the student population, which they claim they want (lies).
They're jealous the athletes get the attention. That's the whole reason behind this. A bunch of jealous, petulant nerds. It's perfectly representative of this bullshit society we live in. Both over-educated and painfully stupid at the same time.

This man knows his shit

 

[HogPocket9455]

College administrators out of touch. Imagine that.

 

[Sir OinksAlot]

College administrators out of touch. Imagine that.

Was about to post this exact thing.

Maybe these nerds will get their wish in the end with the rising tide of inflation. Nobody seems to care how much money this country is spending, which will effect everything eventually.

 

[HTHog]

Was about to post this exact thing.

Maybe these nerds will get their wish in the end with the rising tide of inflation. Nobody seems to care how much money this country is spending, which will effect everything eventually.

When you have a tenured position what the hell do you care what the economy does? You're going to get yours regardless. There's no incentive there.

 

[HeightsHog]

Why are the dumbest people in higher ed? Sign of the times ol boy. At least you’ll be able to cash in that social security soon. I’ll never see mine

there are a lot more John Whites out there than people around here think.

 

[Sir OinksAlot]

When you have a tenured position what the hell do you care what the economy does? You're going to get yours regardless. There's no incentive there.

It’s pretty mind numbing.

 

[Chauvinist Pig]

I’ve read people on here for college football leaving the “corrupt NCAA.”

It’s only a matter of time before football and basketball resemble the European club model.

John White sitting in the corner evilly grinning and touching himself to this thought.

 

[HogPocket9455]

When you have a tenured position what the hell do you care what the economy does? You're going to get yours regardless. There's no incentive there.

These are becoming increasingly rare and are part of a split in academia between administration and faculty / aspiring faculty. Administration wastes a ton of money on essentially nothing and excessive Deans. Its particularly rich that institutions in the article mention athletics as costing too much when administrative salary is way too high. In addition, treating college like a country club is more detrimental to academic purity than athletics.

As far as Arkansas goes, we have faculty that get arrested at football games, so good luck restricting athletics.

 

[smallmouthhog]

What do all these people have in common?

 

[pokerpig]

When you have a tenured position what the hell do you care what the economy does? You're going to get yours regardless. There's no incentive there.

Two words our present government hates: Incentive and Responsibility. They remove any incentive to work, by paying you more to sit on your ass, and the more irresponsible you are, the more government benefits they'll offer. They'll never be happy til everyone is dependent on the government to take care of them, from cradle to grave. Some day the responsible will shrug, and the whole thing will collapse.

 

[nikkichavanelle]

Does everything have to turn into a political debate. Sheesh y’all.

 

[HTHog]

Does everything have to turn into a political debate. Sheesh y’all.

maybe delete the political stuff so an interesting thread can stay on the trough instead of essentially killing it by moving it to the GB.

thanks.

 

[pokerpig]

maybe delete the political stuff so an interesting thread can stay on the trough instead of essentially killing it by moving it to the GB.

thanks.

She could have just deleted my post, and left the thread. Mine was the only one that was political, and for that I humbly apologize. Come on Nikki, delete mine then restore the original post.

 

[Mhhoover92]

She could have just deleted my post, and left the thread. Mine was the only one that was political, and for that I humbly apologize. Come on Nikki, delete mine then restore the original post.

All class. Love to see it

 

[HTHog]

She could have just deleted my post, and left the thread. Mine was the only one that was political, and for that I humbly apologize. Come on Nikki, delete mine then restore the original post.

Maybe her Dad is a Dean somewhere so she wanted it gone?

 

[HogPocket9455]

Well since we can't have nice things, I am going to provide a somewhat related historical account that anyone can feel free to use on Jeopardy someday. This will also likely kill what's left of the thread.

In the late 1890s, as college football proliferated, it came under more and more intense scrutiny due to substantial injury. For example, in 1897 across the nation there were 126 major injuries, 23 injuries classified as maiming (such as a player being trampled), and 13 killed in football games. The Georgia state legislature that year passed a bill to ban football, though I'm not sure if it was signed into law. In Arkansas Daniel Webster Jones became the first state governor to try to ban football from the state's universities. He wrote a letter to the UA president, "I think the game of football as now played is a brutal sport, fraught with much danger to those playing it and, altogether out of harmony with a proper educational system.. in my opinion, the higher civilization we profess is entirely inconsistent with the toleration of such a game." He was responding to a national outcry, but nothing specifically within the state.

The Ivy League schools, where football's powerhouses resided, began calling for the banning as well. Harvard leading the way. That outcry led to the eventual formation of the NCAA, originally named the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, prodded on by Theodore Roosevelt after an intervention into the brutality by calling representatives of Harvard, Yale (Walter Camp), and Princeton to the White House in 1905.