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Title: Reclaiming the Game : College Sports and Educational Values by William G. Bowen, Sarah A. Levin ISBN: 0-691-11620-2 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 14 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Telling it like it is
Comment: The authors have collected an enormous amount of data and presented it lucidly and tellingly. That alone is worth the price of the book. However one feels about elite instutions using different admission standards for recruited athletes,the authors should be given credit for illuminating the facts.
Most of the criticism I have seen has been of the "Kill the Messenger" variety, from people who clearly have "an axe to grind." To those whose minds are not already made up, I suggest reading the book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Intellectually Dishonest
Comment: When he was president of Princeton, William Bowen was responsible for the "problem" he now criticizes. As president of the Mellon Foundation, he is responsible for millions of dollars of grants to Ivy and similar universities, and thus wields enormous power with them as he picks and chooses recipients of the largess he controls. Coincidentally, the "co-author" of this volume is the daughter of one of those recipients--the president of Yale. Just look at the list of people who "helped" him with drafts of the book.
People are entitled to write biased books; the problem here is that Bowen pretends he is not biased, and he obviously is(although more subtly than in his prior effort, Game of Life).
The data (which may represent a federal privacy violation by the colleges that revealed them) are manipulated into statistics to suit the biases and are fundamentally flawed. Data contrary to the biases is avoided or explained away, sometimes in the most Machiavellian manner. For a good rebuttal check out [website]
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Title: The Game of Life : College Sports and Educational Values by James L. Shulman, William G. Bowen ISBN: 0691096198 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Unpaid Professionals : Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist ISBN: 0691086907 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University : A University President's Perspective by James J. Duderstadt ISBN: 0472089439 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Universities in the Marketplace : The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok ISBN: 0691114129 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Beer and Circus : How Big-time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber ISBN: 0805068112 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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