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Corruption In Men's College Sports

Synoposis: Being a college athlete myself I have often wondered why it is that some athletes receive more things than other athletes. The topic of corruption in men's college sports is a complex, confusing, and often misunderstood subject. Many times in college athletics athletes are given extra items such as additional money, cars, and high paying jobs, in order to help in making their college lives easier. In an era where we have athletes leaving college early to pursue professional careers in leagues such as the NBA, it becomes hard to convince athletes to stay in school. Therefore, in order to keep kids from bypassing their college years, some feel that we must pay other dividends to these superior athletes in order to keep them at the University. This attitude comes from the idea that "winning at any cost" has become the norm. Coaches around the country must produce winning records otherwise their jobs become threatened. Consequently, some feel we must find ways in order to keep great athletes in school.

I would like to find out through my research who these people are that actually give these athletes illegal extra items and I would also like to find out how bad corruption really is in men's college athletics.

My intended audiences for this research project are both collegiate athletes themselves and college officials who are concerned about this topic.

5 Web Sources Regarding College Athletics:
1. National Association For College Athletic Reform
Nafcar.org
This website is dedicated to fighting corruption, hypocrisy, and exploitation in college sports. Nafcar.org is a website designed help people understand what often times goes on in college sports. This web site shows how we can fight against fraud in college athletics and reform our Universities so that we all run clean sports programs. Nafcar.org illustrates how athletes around the country are given extra things in order to aid them throughout college and persuade them to stay in college longer.
Source of Web site: National Association For College Athletic Reform.
2. National Alliance for College Athletic Reform
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~nafcar/plan.html
This web site proposes ideas that will help transform college sports from a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry that has compromised the academic mission of the university. This alliance wants to restore academic integrity and fulfill our obligation as faculty to protect the welfare of all students.
Source of Web site: The Drake Group
3. College Sports
http://detnews.com/2000/college/0004/16/
This website gives the latest news on college sports and provides great information on stories in college sports that have led to corruption of the University. College Sports provides the reader with information on news articles that are recent and accurate. This website deals with the popular stories of fraud in college athletics such as the Bob Knight and Minnesota basketball scandals.
Source of Web site: The Detroit News
4. Sports: Men's college basketball briefs
http://www.sptimes.com/News/112300/Sports/Men_s_college_basketb.shtml
This website is about an academic fraud scandal within the men's basketball department. This website also deals with how we treat men's college basketball players and the additional support they receive over other college athletes. They show how universities treat basketball players differently because of the money they make for the school and therefore they receive benefits such as extra money and other gifts.
Source of Web site: St. Petersburg Times
5. Basketball rules committees keep emphasis on rough play
http://www.ncaa.org/
This web site gives all the rules to Nhttp://www.sptimes.com/News/112300/Sports/Men_s_college_basketb.shtmlsite for college athletics and it gives news on how to properly comply with NCAA regulations. Many universities often break the guidelines that the NCAA has set up and therefore this web site provides the reader with not only the consequences but the full story as well.
Source of Web site: The NCAA

Non-Internet Sources Regarding College Sports:
1. Games Colleges Play: scandal and reform in intercollegiate athletics. Call Number: GV351 .T43.
2. Win at any cost: the sell out of college athletics. Call Number: GV351 .D43.
Non-Paper Source: 1. Musical Reference. College Fight Songs. Call Number: M1945 .S 78

Title: The Internet, Pornography and the Children
Topic Area: (Dark Side of the Net)
Pornography has become not only very popular throughout the country but it has become popular among Internet users as well. To see what's hot in Internet technology today, just click over to your nearest porn site for some illuminating lessons in how to get eyeballs, track visitors, and create sites so sticky users actually can't get out.(1) It is not necessarily that the act of pornography is wrong, it is more that these sites are open to anyone of any age and can be accessed at any time. Therefore, we have children who can access pornography easily and no one to stop them. The Internet seems tailored to adult entertainment; like porn, it's a visual medium. And it's private. "You don't have to hide your car behind a sleazy building in a shady part of town anymore," says George Hunt, who owns the $300,000-a-year online adult-film distributor. (1) However, when children are brought into the scenario of Internet pornography, things begin to get a lot more controversial. At the turn of the 20th century, the popularity of pornographic photography helped drive the camera's evolution. "Technology is driven by adult entertainment . . . because sex then sells the technology," says Knowles. Hunt, a former doctoral student in marketing. (1) Online adult entertainment pioneered not only streaming audio and video, Flash, and chat but also the click-through ad banner, the dreaded pop-up window, and online cash. (1) Nevertheless, the problems of pornography come from kids and kids who should not subjected this sort of visual corruption. The predicament we now face is how to keep Internet pornography alive without harming our children and without letting it take over the Internet.

NOTES: (1). Kayte Van Scoy, "Sex Sells, so Learn a Thing or Two from it; Is online porn taboo in your workplace? Surprise: Some of the biggest and best innovations in e-commerce were born at online smut sites. Put those guilty pleasures to work for you and see what ideas you can steal from the dark side of the Net."
Available [Online]: Internet/Web/Online Service Information [Accessed: January, 2000].
(2). Juliana Gruenwald. "Panel again looks to limit Internet porn to children."
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report Available [Online]: Senate Commerce Committee [Accessed: 14 February, 1998]

Three Web Sites:
Title of Web Page: Internet Pornography/Censorship Debate Resolved - solution to pacify all parties.
Web Address: http://www.paulroub.com/porno/ Description: Site based on problems and solutions of Internet pornography.
Source of Web site: Paul Roub
Title of Web Page: Chatters Against Child Pornography on the Internet (CACP).
Web Address: http://www.crosswinds.net/~xcacpx/ Description: Web site directed at provides information, report forms, BBS, the law, and links to problems with the Internet and pornography
Source of Web site: CACP Title of Web Page: Anti Child Porn Militia
Web Address: http://www.a-c-p-m.org/ Description:
This web site is an attempt to fight child pornography on the Internet.
Source of Web site: ACPM

Contact Information: Eve Rackham: rackham@email.unc.edu