Athletics

Team sports help students build healthy habits and provide valuable lessons in collaboration and sportsmanship. Yet, at their worst, they can corrupt or degrade universities’ missions. The following articles suggest ways to preserve the benefits of university athletics while reducing the academic, financial, and social costs of big-time college sports.

Duke Posts High Athlete Grad. Rates, Mixed Findings For UNC

Nov 30, 2000 · Martin Center Staff

Duke University athletes post high graduation rates, while graduation rates for UNC athletes were mediocre, according to a new report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The report looks at six and four-year graduation rates for NCAA Division 1 colleges.

Is UNC-CH’s Budget As Trim As Possible?

Aug 4, 2000 · Chad Adams

Dean Smith, Bill Guthridge, Pat Sullivan, Phil Ford, and Dave Hanners. All of them are former coaches for men’s basketball at UNC-CH. Yet every one of them is currently on UNC-CH’s payroll.

A Great Place to Party? Survey Says… Chapel Hill

Jun 30, 2000 · Martin Center Staff

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the dubious honor of being rated on www.PartySchool.com – a web site that rates schools’ party scenes, gives advice on planning parties (including a list of drinking games “to get the party started”), and provides the “world’s only patented, scientifically proven cure” for combatting hangovers. PartySchool.com awarded UNC-CH with 4 out of 5 stars for its “wild” party scene.

Cut Athletic Scholarships, Reduce Number of Athletic Contests, Professors Say

Apr 6, 2000 · Martin Center Staff

A group of professors from across the United States wants to reform college athletics and expose the corruption behind college sports.

‘If You Were Governor, What Would You Do?’

Jul 22, 1999 · Martin Center Staff

“The pathway to success is to keep the doors of our colleges and universities open to all, and to open them even wider,” North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt said in a recent editorial to The Chronicle of Higher Education, a national magazine that examines news and issues concerning colleges and universities nationwide. Hunt’s editorial appeared in the “Opinion & Arts” section of the July 16, 1999 edition of The Chronicle.

UNC System Selects Another Chancellor in Secret

Mar 19, 1999 · Martin Center Staff

N.C. A&T State University should learn who will be its new chancellor on Friday, March 19. As of press time on Thursday, March 18, President Molly Broad’s office had not made public the names of the four candidates for the position, except one name: Harold Martin, vice chancellor for academic affairs at N.C. A&T.