Heroes, villains, victims and pawns: looking back at the Paterno legacy
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2012/01/22/heroes-villains-victims-and-pawns-looking-back-a...
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University sports, though, breed an apartness between the star athlete and the mere student, insisting that intellectual genius bow down to the primacy of the jock. Said jock may be a legitimate scholar-athlete but is in too many cases a challenge that the athletic department has to sneak through the side corridors and and back alleys of NCAA eligibility requirements. Big-money sports add literally nothing to the legitimate mission of a university and ethically they have as much place on campus as a Provost-administered prostitution ring.
