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To fulfill this obligation Stokes proposes a minor educational revolution which would change the traditional relationship between student and athlete. In effect be would acknowledge that the two are incompatible, and establish separate admissions requirements for the athlete and for the student. Sports scholarships would be freely handed out to...
In essence, Stokes' analysis of the American university sporting scene, based on the acknowledgement that sports should be public entertainment, completely divorces the athletic from the academic.
Nine years ago this relationship was discussed in a slightly different vein. At that time the eight presidents of the so called Ivy League also surveyed the undergraduate sporting scene and were as distressed as Stokes by what they saw. Professionalism, commercialism, and over-emphasis were terms used to describe...
Today, nine years later, a formal agreement between these eight colleges outlines a sporting code whose spirit contradicts Stokes' proposals. The new agreement--known as the "Ivy Group"-- refutes the very heart of Stokes' argument. Emphatically it denies that big-time sports have any rightful place in undergraduate athletics. Athletic...
The line of conflict between the analysis of Stokes and the Ivy League wanders through definitions of a liberal education, problems of fund raising, and the exact obligations of educational institutions to the nation.