Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everybody does it and everybody did it: birds, bees, Bobby Knight, even those holiest of holies Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith and John Thompson. A paper here, a problem set there, no big deal. I don't mean to imply that these coaches condoned academic dishonesty, but to the victors in...
My rudimentary faith in human decency leads me to doubt that most people would murder or steal for money or prestige. But how much would it take to encourage someone to keep his lips sealed over a misdemeanor, to look the other way when the stench of academic dishonesty threatens...
With the lid blown off of the academic dishonesty that everyone on the inside was already aware of, and with nothing to prevent a school from shrugging off any pretense of academic standards in its admission of "students" who might incidentally help its basketball team, college hoops sits on the...
Paying student-athletes might help. Eliminate basketball scholarships but pay the players. Then academics becomes a matter of remaining enrolled at the school, not meeting NCAA academic requirements. Maybe Courtney James would have written that paper if he knew a D would do, rather than a B.
It's not about the grades any more than an academic decathalon is about throwing javelins. Like all else, it is about dollars and cents.