The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming "professionalized" to the weight placed on the "scoreboard" to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges' athletic departments can formulate a plan to "de-professi...

Pay College Athletes Sports have always been one of American's favorite pastimes. Americans love the thrill of hard competition. College athletics has always been at the heart of this. It has always been something more pure than professional athletics. In recent years college athletics ...

ELECTORAL COLLEGE SYSTEM: Is it time for a change? The recent presidential election brought to the forefront of the American public's mind the question of whether the Electoral College remains an appropriate method of electing the nation's highest-ranking public official. Although the cl...

In many studies it has been stated that college age students are more likely to pick up a few pounds during their stint in school. The research conducted in this study will be used to determine the nutritional awareness of college students. In this study females will be compared to males to determin...

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students Binge or excessive drinking is the most serious problem affecting social life, health, and education on college campuses today. Binge or excessive drinking by college students has become a social phenomenon in which college students do not acknowledge the heal...

"In the months before a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology died, she spoke with seven psychiatrists and one social worker. The psychiatrists diagnosed major depression; the therapist recommended hospitalization. She even told a dean that she was cutting herself and let a profess...

Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they shoul...

Cause and Effect of College Binge Drinking As young people enter the culture of the college campus, they are confronted with many challenges and opportunities: the opportunity to be independent of parental control; the need to conform; and the insecurity of a new social setting. While national...

It is six o'clock in the afternoon in a big college town. A young college basketball player is walking down the sidewalk with his teammates and enters the local McDonalds for a burger. The young basketball player reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hand full of lint. He then proceeds...

We have all heard the terms binge drinking, boozing, sloshed, tanked, tipsy, tooted, hammered, and the like. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all-time high. All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a ni...

"With a 3.2 grade-point average, a letter of admission to the University of Utah, and $4000 in scholarships, she seemed to have everything she needed to succeed. Except, it turned out, a Social Security number" (Marklein 1). Many families in the United States struggle to send their child...

School plays a vital role in my life. I have spent more than fourteen years of my life at school so that I can have all the qualifications, credits, knowledge, and the degree to do anything and to be anywhere I want to be in life. Two out of the four levels of school, high school and college, are th...

"Me and my friends were all sitting in a circle playing the drinking game power hour, but instead of drinking a beer every minute for an hour we all took a shot every five minutes. Being the sneaky guy that I am, I took a few extra shots in between. By the end of the two hours we played, I mu...

Sports are a major part of our culture. Many people grow up playing them before they can even tie their own shoe. They are glorified, taught and fed to us. We are taught from a very early age to pick a sport and pursue it. Most kids pick a sport to play with world famous players such as Wayne Gretzk...

College Student-Athletes Can be Compensated for Their Services to Universities. Every year nearly 330,000 college students don uniforms and become student-athletes for their respective schools (NCAA). These students participate in a wide variety of interests, from football to crew, cross country...

College is going to be an essential part of your life. The best time of your life usually comes during college. College turned out to be very different from what I had expected. Before coming to college, I wondered how I would: adjust to the massive amounts of work, who my roommate would be, what...

The Spice of Life In her sparkly brand new kitchen, Kimmy retrieves her favorite cookbook from the cabinet. Her taste buds dance in her mouth as she prepares to "whip up" a scrumptious Lemon Zest bunt cake. As she reaches below her counter and grasps the handle of the cabinet that co...

College's Stress Stress, an emotional, intellectual, or physical reaction to change or demands, happens naturally in everyone's life. Stress comes to each individual differently; "the same situation is not evocative or stressful for all people, and all people do not experience the ...

High School, College, and the Job Market A person who chooses to further their education tends to go further in life then one who just finishes high school and goes straight into the job market. Education these days is very important when looking for a job. Most employers look at education firs...

Stress is something that people face everyday. College students seem to face problems that have a harsher impact on their lives than others. These students have to face the demands of teachers, parents and peers. Many of these demands can lead to overwhelming stresses. According to William Zinsser, ...

"Affirmative action is nothing but a crutch," exclaimed William Levis. "People who receive jobs based on affirmative action have to prove themselves two times over that they are legitimately capable of doing the job. It makes the majority feel like they're being cheated. I think ...

Abstract College students all stress out about one situation/life generality or another. Some of these situations/life generalities are individuation, computer anxiety, ethnic and gender roles in student-athletes, and mathematics anxiety. Introduction There have been many studies looking at stre...

Community College Students Create A Self-Image In Their Life Swimming with the current is much easier than swimming against the current. If people are not able to follow the trend, they will not belong to this time anymore. "Most of the time each of us is a member of a group, sometimes a...

There is a Problem with Having Cable Television on College Campuses Eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, walking through the brightly lit halls, many doors wide open in a dormitory complex on the campus of Bowling Green State University, one can see that the only light that emerges from...

Never have I been the type of girl to question anyone of an authority or superior figure, but I must say that after reading Mark Edmundson's essay On the Uses of a Liberal Education I do question his motives and opinions. In his essay, Mr. Edmundson worries mainly about receiving a good evalua...