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College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Liberal Arts Degree and Personal Development

competitive? One has to think that those obtaining a liberal arts degree are not confined by the limitations of a box with a tit...

Andrew Zimbalist's Unpaid Professionals

the most part, his examination of this particular field of study is "firmly grounded in economic theory and free of the rhetoric t...

College and Issues Involving Women

issues that are more likely to effect women than men, but may not be constrained only to men. Issues such as family commitments an...

Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Hamlet as a Reflection of Past and Present Times

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Alcohol Advertisements and College Student Binge Drinking

missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied ones higher education is but one repre...

5 Primary Reasons to Choose a College

schools like Harvard or Yale. Students must consider comparisons of any college within the collective of similar schools. Studen...

Speech Codes on Campus

Court cases have revolved around the notion of First Amendment rights pertaining to content and place, with the high court often r...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

College Campuses and Smoking

reported that the teachers are considering their position and may file an un-fair labor practices claim as a result of this smokin...

Psychology Students and College Campus Linguistic Subcultures

my guide in understanding how he and his fellow students actually comprise a subculture in their use of such jargon. I, of course...

A Student's Year in the Life

classes. As a freshman this is quite an adjustment(Trockel 2000). However, one must state that the stresses only continue to mou...

Sociological Perspective on College Drinking

Adolescents and young adults who choose to imbibe do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, ren...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

College Graduate's First Day on a New Job

Susan shows me my office and instructs me in how to make arrangements for various items and services such as Internet access, and ...

Fire Safety Issues on College Campuses

not taken and as a result small fires turn into large ones quickly. A burner left on and stored under a curtain can ignite the mat...

Psychology College Student Language Observations

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

Spending Habits of 2 Female Northern Kentucky University Students

counselors across the country is that we are not taught money management or even how to weigh decision-making between options avai...

Americans with Disabilities Act Title III, 42 USC 12182 Provisions

of disability" (Shipley, 2002; p. 327). In 1975, "the Education for All [*328] Handicapped Children Act was passed by Con...

College Education Benefits

off the job as well (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The DOE also points out that a college education provides a grea...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

Occupational Choices in the Field of Psychology

one will find that many fields are rife with opportunities for psychology majors. Many firms in fact hire anyone with a B.S. or B....

Contemporary College Campuses and Multiculturalism

values, there were also sectional differences and the differences would translate into ethnic and racial tensions which persist, t...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

JFK's Life and Political Accomplishments

Furthermore, included is an interesting photograph of Kennedy from his college days, which is very striking when one realizes that...

Internet Violence and Pornography Issues

this research and to illuminate the real problems which are associated with pornography, particularly in regard to the World Wide ...

Academics and College Football

better players than readers. Its a dilemma, with both athletes and institutions caught in the middle (Major Violation: The Unbalan...