One of the best ways to become increasingly informed on this issue so you to can analyze it unbiasedly is by becoming as well read as possible on the opinions of people and factions within the controversy. On this page I have compiled a list of websites which you can read in order to see how percieve various aspects of this issue. By doing this, you too can analyze what is really going on, and formulate a way we can put an end to the struggle once and for all. So, on this page, feel free to read through the articles that are of particular interest to you. If you are not very fimiliar with the material or have a hard time connecting the angles, viewpoints, and issues, I will provide a short excerpt beneath each article summarizing what the artiicle is about, while posing questions so that you may problematize the issue on an increasingly level of complexity.

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Athletes want their share!!- Basically, the article "Is it time for a revolution?" is about how college athletes are exploited in terms of financial revenues. While the universities, coaches they compete for, and the NCAA which sets the regulations makes millions of dollars in revenue each year, these athletes are in their opinion barely getting what they deserve. In order to alleviate this issue, some athletes support a push to allow college athletes to get paid to play college sports. They beleive that for all the workouts, practices and other time they put in, they are making far less money in the form of scholarships than they deserve. Even though these athletes are receiving a free education, some of the poorer ones are sending the check home in order to take care of more urgent familial financial issues.Overall the proponents for financial support of collegiate athletes in the form of wages beleive that the whole system of college athletics and the NCAA needs a complete overhaul in rules and regulations.

Excellent!- This page is a great example at some of the discourse and debates around college athletics. In order to get the most out of the page, while your reading, keep the following questions in mind to help problematize or gain a better understanding of the main issues:

What is the proposed role of "college" for the exceptionally talented student athlete?

What is the first debater mean by the "minor leagues" and why does he suggest it as a viable solution to the problem of underachievement by college athletes??

What is the role of qualification in this discourse? What is its significanc of it in the total intercollegiate academics debate?

Want to learn more about TItle IX? - This article is an interesting outlook on the role that gender and inequality plays into the intercollegiate athletics debate. The main issue of the article is about the various componets of Title IX, an act created in 1972 under the Education Ammendments which "prohibits discriminate on the basis of sex federally funded programs" their roles in fair distribution of resources to male and female intercollegiate sports. One of T of Title IX that is given the most emphasis are the ideas of proportionality, or the rule that schools with male and female athletes must hold athletic oppurtunities that are proportion to their student population makeup. The "careers open to all model" an alternative to the criticised unfairness of the proportionality rule, argues that people should be judged on their talents, and not unimportant details such as race, class and gender. Here is a question to keep in mind while reading the article.

How can is idea of "unfariness" be seen by those who are against intercollegiate athletics? How may this "unfairness" play a deeper role in the growing schism between the two polarized sides?

The Empirical effects of College Athletics- This report is an interesting look into the some of the many assumptions that make up the sides of the intercollegiate athletics debate. For each item, the study presents a hypothesis, and uses quantative data in order to show the inherent validity of each of the statements. While reading this report, one must be skeptical of the data do to the time where these statistics are relevant. However,my aim in providing this article is to show ways where some of the biases miss the larger picture and crucial casual links in order to explain positive, or negative occurences.

Very interesting Duke Athletics blog- The essence of this man's blog falls tangentially to mine, in the sense that he poses questions that talk about the academic credentials of an athlete at Duke. Though this article is straightfoward and relatively easy to understand, there are definitely certain questions that one needs to ask oneself as they go through the article and look critically and the concepts adressed and issues raised.

What is the the supposed significance of dropping down to the Divison III athletic level in relation to the collegiate atmosphere at Duke?

Can affirmative action and its practices be likened to the admission offices practices of admitting athletes with certain disirable skills?

What role does social balance play in the debate? How can it be linked to opposing views of the overal "goal" of the university??

Very interesting article highlighting the economic and political aspects of debate- Though this page is based on a study, it is very important to anlyzing the debate because it provides a possible economic explanation to why college athletics are the way they are today. Those of you who are interested in the mathematical and statistical aspect of situations will be able to break this study down, and find out if based on the components and framework of the study, there really is a direct proportional connection between the sucess of the state school Dvision 1A athletic programs and funding. This article is important, because it introduces a new possible motivation for Division One Schools agressive recruiting of Division one athletes who may in the long run, raise money for the school.

*Athorough overview of a large number of concepts that are integrated into the debate- This page is great that it covers so many angles that I have gone over in this site and them some. This page is so important to read, because it provides the statistical analysis where certain claims about the affect of college athletic programs are founded. While reviewing this page, no matter how quantitavely appealing the information is, make sure to review the information with a skeptical eye. For example, when they construct charts and figures and come to various conclusions, one has to always to be sure to see the implications of the variables being discussed and how they fit into the larger picture in terms of the variable which is being measured. If one fails to do this, they be mislead by a study that has not incorporated many of the other details that mold the situation, and hence the controversy.