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  • #16
    Rofl. sorry,but my campus is too cheap to offer TLF's. But we can submit free opinion's. Lots of people read those.

    At least I know I'm not the only student out there whose suffering from Student Athlete ***hole-itis.
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    • #17
      At least I know I'm not the only student out there whose suffering from Student Athlete ***hole-itis.


      I still can't believe that you've seen a student-athlete in class. I thought that was an urban myth...
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      • #18
        I've taught them, but I must say that most of the ones I've taught, while morons, were not rude.

        The solution is simple: colleges should just be allowed to hire athletes as employees, instead of going through the farce of pretending that they're students. Contracts to play would be binding for 4-years and non-renewable with the school or any other NCAA participant. The school still gets a team, the university still gets donations and residuals from merchandising, the athletes still get a springboard to a pro career, and Franky gets to take statistics. Problem solved.
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        • #19
          Go up to the whole group after class and tell them to "SHUT THE **** UP!"

          Um, just make sure you have enough friends to make that stick.
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          • #20
            Quite a few of my classmates are athletes, and they're probably the smartest ones. They're always the ones coming out with the clever stuff.
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            • #21
              quit *****ing here and start *****ing to people who can actually do something about it, for starters.
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              • #22
                Try the ol' Zkribbler tactic of rebellion by overcomplaince:

                "Excuse me, there was some talking in the back of the class, and so I couldn't quite hear that last point. Would you mind repeating it?"

                "Excuse me, there was some talking in the back of the class, and so I couldn't quite hear that last point. Would you mind repeating it?"

                "Excuse me, there was some talking in the back of the class, and so I couldn't quite hear that last point. Would you mind repeating it?"

                "Excuse me, there was some talking in the back of the class, and so I couldn't quite hear that last point. Would you mind repeating it?"

                After four or five tries, the professor should get the point.

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                • #23
                  well damn... i'm always in the back of the class with the varsity bball players... go figure
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                  • #24
                    Which school?
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by David Floyd
                      Go up to the whole group after class and tell them to "SHUT THE **** UP!"

                      Um, just make sure you have enough friends to make that stick.
                      Haha. I've actually done that once or twice. Not after, but DURING class
                      Sitting at my table, I just turn my head (interrupting both, the teacher and the students); "Hey! you there... SHUT THE **** UP!"
                      Usually it goes as a joke, but it still works, they're like "Ha ha... sure, you're OK" and the teacher doesn't mind since the class is silent

                      (usually I make the most noise, though but some mornings, like the one above, just aren't too energetic for that....)

                      The people in question weren't athletes - we have no athletes in our schools (well, some people do sports but aren't utterly stupid, stereotypic-athletes), we need brain to get into our schools, not muscle. That's why I kinda find all those American teenage-movies kinda unbelievable; people aged 18-20 ( ) behaving like 13-15... ha, they'd never be studying in high school here. Schools are mostly funded by the government you see
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                      • #26
                        hm... at uchicago, i'm not sure if we have student athletes...

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                        • #27
                          i wanna go to uchicago ... and im a student athlete. can u tell me about the state of athletics there (mostly men's soccer) cuz im getting recruited maybe.
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                          • #28
                            hm. well, we do have sports. it's just that nobody cares about them, really. so if you're looking to be feted for some sports accomplishment here, don't bother-- if i remember right our basketball team did rather well. as does our track team. i've never been to a game and neither have most people, and most of these successes are relegated to the back of the newspapers here.

                            we do have ample facilities, and we're constructing a brand new gymnasium (ratner) which should be finished by late 2003 or 2004.

                            usually, i've found, the emphasis is more on intramural (between dorm houses) sports than anything.

                            you do, on the other hand, get a world-class education. you won't get any slack just 'cause you're an athlete.
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                            • #29
                              So theres no school spirit?
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                              • #30
                                oh, there's school spirit. just not as much as one would find at, say, stanford, or any of the other Big Ten/NCAA Div I schools.

                                Everybody here's rather proud to be a UChicago student~ it's just that people tend to view it in more academic terms than athletic terms.
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