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(Debate Club). Richard Burton, Professor of Sports Management at Syracuse University, explains the universities of successful sports teams make millions from selling team products and especially tickets to the games. For football and basketball coaches, the average salary exceeds well over $1 million per year. According to Forbes, “In 40 of the 50 U.S. states, the highest paid public official is currently the head coach of a state university’s football or men’s basketball team” (qtd. in…

Nowadays society pushes you to go to college. Throughout middle school and especially high school, teachers, parents and friends are always asking you where you are going to college and what your plans are. We are pressured into choosing a college and a career at such a young age and students will often change their mind part way through. Through that whole time students are not only wasting their time, but spending so much money. College is way more expensive than students and parents think and…

Immediately following graduation, I plan to continue my education in Social Work by going graduate school. I have already applied for the University of Maryland School of Social Work along with Morgan State University, both located in Baltimore. The Maryland school of Social Work is my first preference because I believe this school will provide me with a new, diverse environment and pave the way for tremendous growth and development. Also, I am choosing to obtain my MSW in Baltimore for two…

For quite some time there continues to be a major argument over whether or not college athletes should be paid. Many questions come with statement as to whether this should apply to D1 schools or any division that participates in athletics? Another question remains as to whether or not the sports teams that earn the most profits should receive money? Before you can answer any of those questions the main question remains as to whether or not college athletes should be paid? Athletes are not just…

average car would cost more than $80,000 if the inflation was equivalent to college tuition (Campos). According to a College Entrance Examination Board called College Board , “The average cost of tuition and fees at a private, non-profit, four-year university…was $31,231—up sharply from $1,832 in 1971 to 1972 (in current dollars). At four-year public schools, tuition and fees cost about $9,139” (Schoen). In addition, "Nearly 40 million Americans have accrued student debt, with 60 percent of all…

Final Research Paper Today high school graduates should have an opportunity to go to college for free, so they can look forward to a bigger future and better job opportunities in life. Having free college can be beneficial by bringing in even more young adults who are interested to further their education more and to help the lower class have their higher education too. Free college may be beneficial but it also come with problems or even alternatives. But that doesn 't mean we should stop this…

work as well as some people believe. The first idea is that when you do not get the right amount of sleep you do not preform to the best of your ability compared to when you have a good night 's sleep. This theory was proven by a study done by the University of Los Angles California (Sterling). In this study 535 students in high school that were in 9th, 10th and 12th grade were asked to keep a journal of how much they had studied and how much sleep they got the night before. The students were…

training and initiation (“Definition of Hazing in English”). Unfortunately, fraternities and sororities tend to take hazing to a whole other level. There are countless different types of hazing rituals. For example, Braylon Curry, a Southern Methodist University junior, was forced by his fellow fraternity members to keep drinking from a gallon jug, threatening to beat him if he stopped. A few hours later, he was rushed to the nearest hospital as a result of having a seizure. Curry was not…

The Representation of College Lifestyles vs. Education in Accepted Steve Pink’s 2006 film Accepted starring Justin Long, describes the comical story of a recent high school graduate, Bartleby Gaines who was denied of acceptance from each college to which he applied. In lieu of these multiple rejections, Long’s character, Bartleby Gaines, decides to start his own college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology. He and his friends are accepted to South Harmon Institute of Technology (not…

The website college view gives us some sort of estimate on a four year institution “The College Board reports that the avenge cost of one year of in-state tuition and fees at a public four year school is $8,655. Tack on another $9,205 in room and board costs you’re looking at an average yearly bill of $17,860.” With that information about a four year institution students end up paying all their four years the price of 71,440 that is just an estimate that I just made because there are some…