Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
The Big College Try
By Andrew Hacker
Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President's Perspective
James J. Duderstadt
University of Michigan Press, 331 pp., $29.95
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
Murray Sperber
Henry Holt, 322 pp., $26.00
The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values
James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen
Princeton University Press, 447 pp., $27.95
As president of the University of Michigan from 1988 through 1995, James Duderstadt was the chief executive of one of the nation's top centers for graduate education and research. While he had previously served as a provost and a dean, it was only on becoming president that he found how much of his time and energy would be taken up by the school's athletic program. Despite its general title, his book draws largely on his Michigan experience and it is full of revelations about college sports. Here are a few examples:
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