Mary Wehmeier: Skating DivaNews, opinions and views from the world of Figure and Artistic Skating.Why I Ended Up Being a Skater- September 22, 2002 Why I Ended Up Being a Skater John Robb has pointed to the NYT article about the elimination of walk-ons for college sports. What a shame, but this report points to a bigger problem with the entire system: the US sports system from 9th grade on is much too elitist. We restrict access to athletics like it was a scarce commodity, treating it different than any other basic education. He goes on to comment about Intramural Sports and today's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100243/categories/skatingDiva/2002/09/22.html#a534 |