April 23, 2004

Striking Out in Essays on Colleges and Sports

To the Editor:

In reading the March 12 issue of The Chronicle Review, I was struck again by the fact that we talk about universities and colleges as a generic concept in which all institutions are treated as being the same or very similar. ...

Murray Sperber's "Sex and Booze: Two Steps to Winning Football" concludes that "the average president" knows little "about undergraduate life" and "even less about the daily lives of athletes." This may be true at some or all large

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