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Chapter 2

Rejecting an invitation for the school football team to participate in the Rose Bowl game was as bad as them inviting a known or implied communists to speak on campus pg 45

There are disagreements in the Big Ten about the Rose Bowl. Some people are opposed to it.

There was job abuse going on at ohio university because the athletes were getting paid a lot of money 51

Fullington Committee Created to investigate athletics because of the job abuse

The back of the Cold War also placed renewed focus on the role of the student. For many commentators, the challenges of the Cold War required a “great educational awakening” among college students “to safeguard the future of the United States” against the scholarly and educational advances of the Soviets.

Although defenders of the game argued that the values and lessons of football were critical to ensuring Cold War victory, the game’s critics also linked football to the Cold War by suggesting that its overemphasis distracted American society from the larger Task at hand” pg 60

The cold war thus demanded that students devote themselves to the “one great cause-learning” if they were to defeat “the Ivans” pg 60 Doing so would require them to reject traditional campus distractions such as football in favor of studious earnestness.