Save the University of Missouri Press

[Michael Fonash]

"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..."

These schools do exist in the Northeast states and Southern
California: The Seven Sister Colleges and a whole bunch of privately
funded colleges.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...)