sports writer at buzzfeed, and david epstein, senior writer with sports illustrated and author of the sports gene: inside the sign of extraordinary athletic performance. so nice to have you all here. let me start with you. is it reasonable to say that college athletes should either be getting a stipend, a larger stipend, or that they ought to at least have the right to profit off their own name, likeness, and image? it s interesting, because i think this issue has obviously, in the johnny manzell news and this half-game suspension, and people wondering, why can t he get paid for his own autograph or a picture of himself, there really has been a wave of criticism of those rules themselves. and there has been more push. should we pay players, open it up, or do a stipend-type system. a lot of athletic officials like that idea. a more of a, just to get through the campus year, these kids can t have full-time jobs in addition to their commitment to
in universities as whole. so a private plane with an alligator on it, how does that fit into the core missions of an institution of higher education? yeah, hmm, how does it? actually, those are great questions that lead us in a bit of the conversation we re about to have, as we re going to talk a little bit about the cost of education and the president s plan around it. i want to say thank you to nicole and to roman and joel and david. hopefully you ll come back at some point as we get into would season as well. but up next, college 101, the president, he got under my skin with his lesson plan this week. have i got a treat for you. new clean whipped creme foundation from covergirl. a delicious new recipe whipped up by clean makeup. they took their clean fresh foundation, added a dash of hydration, then whipped it to smooth matte perfection. finally, a non-drying whip that wears like a dream!
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that is what we want to be doing in the world, but the administration this week sent out a new proposal for a market place-like system for institutions of higher learn. and if they failed to make the grade, they may no longer get the dollars. and the impact on historically black colleges and universities like moorhouse may be particularly acute. joining me now is lily garcia, who s vice president of the national education association and back with us, dorian warren, associate professor at columbia university. okay, i have all the feelings, and i know it s because this is my real job. so i had all the like, i get this is not everybody s biggest problem. but i really was astonished by this market place discourse. and i m a sixth grade teacher from utah. and as i was looking at this, we want our kids in that pipeline to college. we want graduation to be the key to, you know, we ll get into higher education, whether that s trade school, community colleges, universities, you can
coming in and some of them are being done a disservice in their education. so then does the argument become that what you just need is a minor league sports team for football, just as we have for baseball, and separate out what s going on with college. the college athletics becomes truly amateur. but those on the pro track go into paid minor leagues. i think that would be great, but i don t think people want that, because, obviously, there are people that have attachments to that school, but it s worth noting that the united states is the only country in the world that attaches big-time athletics to its higher education systems. so i don t think that that makes, you know, people we re really invested in the notion of, like, athletes representing your school and the college sports represents something larger than itself. and not just emotionally invested, but we were looking at this dead spin graphic, that was just obscene, because when you look at the number of states where the