Ah, the philosopher king who's going to make people do what's right. Are you suggesting an act of Congress regulating private businesses? The real problem are the (mostly public) universities who essentially employ professional athletes to perform in their name and call them 'students'. Universities who wish to employ athletes and field professional teams should do so the way they employ other support personnel, separate from any student status. If these employees (like any other University employee) wish to enroll as students, have the time and meet the standards, they should be welcome to do so. Since these are state institutions, I suspect that any regulation would have to be at the level of state legislatures (good luck).
On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Mike Wiliams wrote: > Why don't we *compel* the professional sports organizations to start farm > clubs for Football and Basketball, like we have for Baseball? It would > resolve this hypocrisy, improve the sports and probably help the economy of > smaller cities. I find it tragic that students at large Universities with > essentially professional sports teams cannot play on the school football and > basketball teams. Get the farm clubs out of the Universities and these > problems will be solved. > > The IRB did the right thing by exempting her research. Even if they don't > exempt the study, and review it, she will likely be approved. Fortunately, > one of the positive things about IRBs is that they are essentially > independent of the administration. If anyone in the administration tries to > influence the deliberations, UNC could get into a lot more trouble than bad > news about their athletes. > > The administration is between a rock and a hard place. If this was research > about something other than the University itself, they could prohibit the > research based on its poor quality. Since the object of the research is the > University, prohibiting the study makes it appear that the administration is > suppressing the study. > > Although tenure has a general bearing on the issues, I did not read that the > investigator was tenured. This case suggests that a free press (CNN) may > keep the University fair and honest. > > Mike Williams > > > On 1/20/14 11:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest > wrote: >> For your friends who question tenure... > > Subject: For your friends who question tenure... > From: Christopher Green<[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:44:25 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > For those of you (probably not many on this list) who might have thought that > tenure is unnecessary in this "modern" era to protect the integrity of > research from the political motivations of a vindictive administration. > > UNC IRB suddenly reverses its decision AFTER THE FACT on whether research > that shows many of its athletes to be functionally illiterate requires > oversight. > > http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32949 or send a blank email to leave-32949-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
