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51. College sports' disheartening pattern of failed reform

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
College sports -- Analysis, Press -- Influence, Education
Abstract

The press has a crucial role in sustaining the reform movement in college sports by focusing on the contentions issues and plans for possible reform and refusing to allow coaches and athletic directors to declare the success of the reforms and stop calling for change. Lessons from the past, such as the efforts of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the 1920s and 1930s, serve to emphasize the urgency for the press to act. History should be prevented from repeating itself, and the need for truth in college reports should be stressed.

Published
1993

52. In praise of 'student-athletes': the NCAA is haunted by its past

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
College sports -- Social aspects, Education, NCAA -- History -- Social aspects
Abstract

ANOTHER BOWL SERIES has come and gone, and developments in college sports--and the huge sums of money involved--continue to amaze. A group of assistant coaches sues the National Collegiate Athletic [...]

Published
1999

54. Hoop Dreams Hollywood dreams.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
LITERARY excerpts, PERIODICALS
Abstract

An excerpt from the journal "Jump Cut" is presented.

Published
1996

60. British documentary

Author

Sperber, Murray

Abstract

Elizabeth Sussex. The Rise and Fall of British Documentary: The Story of the Film Movement Founded by John Grierson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. 219 pages. $11.95.

Published
1978
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63. Graduating Jocks - A Numbers Game

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
College sports -- Statistics
Abstract

LEAD: Senator Bill Bradley would have us believe that legislation forcing colleges to reveal the graduation rates of their athletic scholarship holders would help cure the ills of college sports. […]

Published
1989

65. The Science Fiction of H. G. Wells/H. G. Wells (Book).

Author

Sperber, Murray A.

Subjects
SCIENCE Fiction of H.G. Wells, The (Book), MCCONNELL, Frank, H.G. Wells, Discoverer of the Future: The Influence of Science on His Thought (Book), HAYNES, R. D.
Abstract

Reviews the books 'The Science Fiction of H.G. Wells,' by Frank McConnell and 'H.G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future: The Influence of Science on his Thought,' by R.D. Haynes.

Published
1982

66. A Lifetime of Academic Offices.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*FIRST person narrative, *OFFICES, *COLLEGE teachers
Abstract

A personal narrative is presented of the author's memories of the office spaces he has occupied over the course of his career as a professor at Indiana University at Bloomington and the University of California at Berkeley.

Published
2009

67. Why I Returned to Teaching.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*FIRST person narrative, *TEACHING
Abstract

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's decision to return to his teaching career.

Published
2008

68. The NCAA's Last Chance to Reform College Sports.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*COLLEGE sports
Abstract

Presents the text of a letter which urges the National Collegiate Athletic Association to reform college sports in the U.S.

Published
2002

69. The Worst Day of My Academic Life.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*FIRST person narrative, *WORK-life balance
Abstract

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of surviving the worst day of his professional life.

Published
2009

70. Sex and Booze: Two Steps to Winning Football.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*COLLEGE students, *UNIVERSITIES & colleges, *FOOTBALL teams, *SCOUTING (Athletics), *ATHLETES
Abstract

Discusses the culture of college students in light of the scandal which involved the football team at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Details of the scandal; Components of undergraduate culture; Incidents which occurred during the recruitment of athletes.

Published
2004

71. Will Its New President Bring Real Reform to the NCAA?

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*COLLEGE presidents, *COLLEGE sports
Abstract

Comments on the selection of Myles Brand as president of the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Career of Brand as a college president; Views on the capacity of Brand to reform the NCAA; Problems with national athletics facing Brand.

Published
2002

72. Betting the Line (Book).

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
GAMBLING
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life,' by Richard O. Davies and Richard G. Abram.

Published
2002
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73. The eligibility gap.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*COLLEGE sports laws
Abstract

Opinion. Evaluates Proposition 48, a rule to lay down the academic standards for the selection of college athletes as freshmen. Comments of the opponents of the rule; Assessment measure suggested by the author for the same.

Published
1995

74. Point of view.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*UNIVERSITY & college admission, *ATHLETES, *EDUCATION
Abstract

Opinion. Discusses drawbacks in the US university admission system for athletes. Problems with the special-admissions rule; Criterion of race in admission choices.

Published
1995

75. A copy-editing boom at scholarly presses?

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*LETTERS to the editor, *UNIVERSITY presses
Abstract

Presents a letter to the editor in reaction to the article 'University Presses Ponder Their Role in a Future Clouded by Financial and Cultural Upheaval.'

Published
1991

76. In Praise of `Student-Athletes': the NCAA Is Haunted by Its Past.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
*CORRUPT practices in college sports, *COLLEGE sports
Abstract

Takes a look back at the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). When Kenneth (Tug) Wilson started the organization; How the association viewed revenue and collegiate sports in the beginning; Skepticism felt by the media and the public over football recruiting and game-fixing in college basketball; The American Council on Education's recommendations in 1952 to de-emphasize college sports; How the NCAA responded to charges of waste and corruption in 1992.

Published
1999

79. Reviews of books: United States.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
STAGG'S University (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago,' by Robin Lester.

Published
1997

81. College Football.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
UNITED States history, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy,' by John Sayle Watterson.

Published
2002
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82. Book Reviews.

Author

Sperber, Murray

Subjects
AMERICAN Marathon, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The American Marathon,' by Pamela Cooper.

Published
1999

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