Complex numbers. So fun.
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In the bizzaro world of Ralph Nader - the Princeton and Harvard-educated attorney, author, lecturer, activist and four-time candidate for President of the United States, according to his Wikipedia page - the stench of college sports is overwhelming.
There’s a dire need to “de-professionalize,” he insists. Especially right now, while we’re amidst what he calls “the 2011 NCAA Professional Basketball Championships.”
Start by getting rid of all the preferential athletic scholarships. Set up a need- based financial aid system that athletes can use, like every other student.
That will restore academic integrity. It’ll even end a “win-at-all-cost” mentality for high school, middle school or elementary school kids - who are hoping for a free ride to college in exchange for their ability to generate income for sports programs.
We need to “be able to use the term `student-athlete’ without snickering,” Nader says.
“It’s time for our college athletes to be true students on campus, not athletes on athletic stipends with sports - not education - as their top priority and obligation.”
True, the system in place now is pretty flawed. The kids who attract the entertainment dollars aren’t equitably compensated, for one.
But all that the raider Nader’s gameplan lacks is common sense. Eliminating opportunities for those in need hurts the greater good in the bigger picture.
And he overlooks an essential point: For almost 99 percent of college sports, it is about the amateur athlete, not the budding professional.
NCAA reform, we’d buy into that. Even if the idea leads to someone like Pat Haden, who has managed to make some major philosophical changes in the way USC runs its sports programs, as a prime candidate to run college athletics’ governing body and bring some missing perspective.
Or is that pushing things too far?
How much longer can Ohio State’s basketball team’s run toward an basketball title divert attention from the black-and-Buckeyes athletic department getting Jim Tressel prepared for his permanent golden handshake, with the hopes that Urban Meyer will be waiting to swoop in and save face?
Butler University, an independent, coeducational, liberal arts and sciences facility with 4,650 students, founded in 1855 in Indianapolis by attorney and abolitionist Ovid Butler, has won eight of its past nine NCAA Tournament games? Hear that UCLA?
Are we supposed to be paying attention to Barry Bonds’ trial, or the trial he must have put himself through to lose three hat sizes since we last saw him?
Is the portrait of Pedro Martinez that has been unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., going up next to the one of Delino DeShields?
And now, the top 10 coolest things about being in Fontana this weekend … No.10 … Any suggestions?
If I have this right, any object can be taken apart and reassembled into any other object, matching its size. One sphere can be reassembled into two spheres exactly matching the first, or “a pea can be reassembled into the sun.”
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WOW
So the Red-bearded Wonder texted me that he’s hanging out with a couple man-friends (very rare he gets a chance to do so) and they’re goofy and about half baked.
LOL, good for him.
And goodnight for me!
ROFLMAO, That still works? Nope, not with a girl, nope cant call, only text, just priceless really, *H Five*
So the Red-bearded Wonder told me what he meant by saying that I really am rock’n’roll.
and ya know what?There aren’t very many guarantees in life. But here’s one…
As long as he wants to hang around,
He’ll never be bored.
LOL, STILL havent got him in the sack yet, eh?
“Tricked Out”
I am…
Though my definition of “bling” is different than most of y’all’s… ;o)
OMG! It’s DOG the Bounty Hunter ‘Post Op’!! Tell me I’m wrong..
SST these pants make my butt look great…
Not sure if this is a joke or taken from the people of walmart, Austin Powers funny as heck either way!
I’ve been talking to a guy for a while. A pretty long while, actually. And I really like him. We’re friends in the way that we don’t have to be careful what we say or wonder how it’s gonna affect the other person or take time off when we’re not suitable company.He just went through a really…
What a desperate long way just to say “If I could just get him in the sack he would love me”. Any man w the slightest bit of common sense would spot that red flag and run like hell…
