Yeah, and just to be clear: Peterson wasn’t “against” sports or football. He liked playing in orange bowls. He just didn’t want to go out of his way to support it. He liked the benefits / notoriety, but didn’t want to invest in it. He wanted it to be self-sustaining operation rather than a venture worth infusing capital to drive future growth.
Why the hell did they start playing football then? Guy’s just another brilliant rocket scientist academic elitist idiot.
I don’t think the argument is as one sided and simple. I’m a huge GT sports fan and want nothing more than to invest. But there are a lot of smart people who believe our strengths as an elite research university lend itself to looking more like our “true” peers that elect to play D3 sports: Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, WashU, U of Chicago, NYU, Washington & Lee, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis, MIT.
Well, he could have been in favor of those student’s Consitutional rights. Must have really sucked to be one of those kids completely unjustifiably expelled. Just because others are trampling all over the law doesn’t mean GT should also. Bad leadership & corrupt to boot. His disdain for athletes is minor in comparison.
Calculus is absolutely *not* required for every major at Tech. I took 1 semester of Calc as a CS major. Didn’t take Calc2 that spring because I was mulling a major change. I jumped on the M Train after a semester away (as a music ed major interestingly enough) and my first semester back, satisfied my other math credit with Finite Math. The majority of our student athletes are in the now Scheller College of Business and Calc is still not a requirement.
The last president that supported athletics very well came from CMU...just saying.
False. Calculus is required for Ivan Allen and Scheller. It’s not the Calc 1 taken by engineers, but it’s still calculus. We need to stop thinking of this from our POV, but from that of an athlete with marginal math/science skills or one from a bad public school district that doesn’t prepare its students for the rigors of GT.
According to what I find online, Scheller students are required to take MATH 1712 and 1711 or MATH 1550/51, 1553 and 1552. Four of those courses are some kind of calculus.
As I remember it, Management majors have to take Survey of Calculus. While not engineering calculus, it's still advanced math with Calculus in the title.
Scheduling required classes ONLY during the same time as football practice. Is that a BOR policy or a **** move by Peterson?
I didn't see a MIT football quote in LongforDodd's link. However, I would think there's a significant difference between Div1 and Div3 football...
It was BS. If that was the case it would have made more sense to provide further funding to SPSU and Ga. Southern not build a brand new program at UGA while they were folding other schools together to cut costs on administrators.
Dynamic scheduling is difficult, like de-conflicting strike operations in a war zone. Most other scheduling is child’s play. With 16k students & limited majors an elite Institute like GT should be able to figure out how to offer a mandatory, required for graduation class more than once a year or semester. If he needed help, well we’ve got an IE school that’s been ranked #1 for nearly 6 million straight years that I’m sure has someone that can figure it out.
@LongforDodd posted a link to the provost’s bio. The fact that academics are naturally predisposed to hate sports is not surprising. There’s 3 things academics are notoriously bad at- getting a real paying job in the private sector, playing sports outside of stuff like badminton etc, finding a chick that shaves her pits & legs and doesn’t have a stache.
In my view, it was embarrassing that GA's "flagstaff" university didn't have a school of engineering. Is there even a University of [insert state] that doesn't have a school of engineering? And if there isn't, how late was UGA to the party?
It was federal mandates.....the universities basically had a gun to their head. Not saying it was right.....but it is easy to see why it happened......not gonna happen.
President has nothing to do with class schedule.....individual faculty and departments do.