Good Sports

Struck by the breakout of egregious scandal in intercollegiate athletics, a group of faculty leaders in major universities around the country-many of whom had already to draw up programs of reform-banded together to form a coalition that would address the need for better faculty control of college sports. Burgan comments that the call for reform of college sports barely imagines the courage and thoughtfulness of such students. It is true that faculty should exert better oversight over athletics, but in doing so, they would benefit from knowing more student athletes.