Annotated Bibliography 3
Wolverton, B., Kelderman, E. & Moser, K. (2008, September 5). Spending Plenty So Athletes Can Make the Grade. Chronicle of Higher Education. p.A1-A23.
This article gives us some reasons to explain why university spending on athletic programs has surged and where the money goes. The authors of this article claimed that many universities spending much money to build some stand-alone building for the exclusive use of athletes. And it also cause some people complain that these lavish buildings give athletes an unfair advantage over other students. Next, the authors use some examples to explain that the money of athletic programs not only is flowing to new facilities, but also need pays the salaries of growing staffs. Moreover, the authors point a new idea is that some lower-achieving athletes have gotten into university, and it cause lots of students sport as well but academic in the trouble. This article was published in Chronicle of Higher Education on September 2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that information for university faculty and Student Affairs professionals, so this is article is convincing. The authors write some advantage of athletic programs at first, but they pay more attention on the negative influence on spending. I plan use some examples from this article on my paper. In this article, the authors give us a example on university of Oregon, it is talk about why school also need spending much money on athletic programs when the billionaire co-founder of Nike, Philip H. Knight is already covering construction costs. This example is a best one because this case just happened in our life. Beside, this article gives me some new ideas, like the opinion of other students who do not like sport. Also, I got the answer of why school should spending much money on athletic programs during read this article, and