Slackademics

A snippet from the morning's NYTimes on the vast amounts of money Division I universities are spending on academic centers for their athletes:

"Many universities have developed training and monitoring programs for tutors, and rules govern how much assistance they can provide. For example, tutors at Tennessee cannot type papers for athletes. Most universities make the tutors sign an integrity contract saying they will not perform work for athletes."

It tutors aren't allowed to type papers for athletes (after the athletes have hand-written the entire ten-page paper by hand, I presume), what are they allowed to do?

In other news, the Bo's much more studious student athletes made the news this week for a different reason. From Sports Illustrated's SI on Campus:

"Bowdoin College has enlisted the school's football team to help prevent dining hall theft. Once a week, football players will assist a dining hall employee to ensure that students present their ID cards. This may seem like a good idea, but considering that the team is 0-6 and has been outscored 127-13, they might not be able to protect a buffet any better than they protect the endzone."

The article fails to mention that these football players aren't just preventing 'dining hall theft,' they are protecting a sacred institution we call SuperSnacks.