Save the University of Missouri Press

[Keith Davis]

Here, hear...
On Jun 23, 2012 12:55 AM, "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Matthew Cissell  wrote:
> > Fitting retort. I have no love for jocks and their priveledged status on
> campus.
> >
> > I am all for taking sports' central position out of the university. To
> hell with the big ten. When football coaches get paid more than the
> professor teaching med students (who will save lives someday) there is
> something very wrong.
>
>
> a-and that william carlos williams had something about how millions
> die every day from lack of poetry...
> or something like that...didn't he?
>
> anyway, in my ideal U, violent sports would be treated as crimes and
> the perpetrators arrested and held in opprobrium and so forth --
> medical studies would be respected but liberal arts would be revered
> (like the difference between Doktor and Arzt in Germany, or so I was
> led to believe in high school German class...)
>
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