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...prides itself on the emphasis of student in the student-athlete, with advertising campaigns, graduation rate statistics, and online guides. However, in practicality they go directly against those practices. Widely seen Final Four tournament television coverage is frequently given to stars who will be packing their bags after just one season. This spotlight makes it blaringly clear how little value is put on being a student, when in these cases only one quarter of the college commitment is finished. These “students” send the message to high-schoolers that treating college as a one-year stepping...
...exception than the rule; seniors this year like Jon Scheyer of Duke and Willie Veasley of Butler represent the many four-year students playing at an extremely high level while earning their degrees. The danger here is not necessarily the number of players opting out of college after one season but rather the cultural normalcy that comes along with...
...question of how to stymie this movement is complicated. Although colleges are in part to blame for accepting athletic prodigies with the knowledge that they will leave after one year—taking them for athletic success and not academic potential—they are not the root of this issue. As backward as it may sound, the NBA should re-allow players to enter the league directly from high school. Rather than letting the small number of high-profile players publicly act as college students for a year and thus set an example to young fans that college...
...Roughly one-fourth of admitted students claimed an interest in the humanities—a 2.7 percent increase—while those planning to study the social sciences dropped from 24.6 percent last year to 21.3 percent this year...
...first video, "Family Reunion," Brown and Harvard talk about a "family reunion" amongst all of the Ivy League schools. In typical Harvard manner, Harvard complains about Yale and is overly competitive. The Brown student is, of course, the relaxed, hipster stereotype, sporting a beanie and a flannel shirt. One of FlyBy's favorite lines: "Listen Harvard, you gotta calm down. We're all brothers here. And then there's Cornell...