Would Someone Get on This?

There's a book dying to be written, if one of you has some spare time. In the past thirty years or so, jock culture has come to dominate every aspect of America life.

Research wouldn't be tough. You could do a quick scan of badjocks.com.

You could read Reclaiming the Game. The authors show that even 'top' universities bend the rules for jocks: top jocks are four times more likely to be admitted to certain Ivy League schools than non-jocks with similar academic credentials.

You could talk about how Nike, the ultimate commercialial evangelist of jock culture, bought its way into the academy. (Not that corporate money corrupted the academy - the academy's had fishnet stockings on for a long time.)

You could tell the story of the girl in Bow, NH who took AP Biology instead of gym and was told she wouldn't get a diploma. She, a hero, told them to fuck off.

Maybe that's not a bad catchphrase for the next ten years: Fuck off, jock.