Glossy Contracts: University Mascot Controversies

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Modern-day intrigue surrounding the forging of flexible market contracts in collegiate athletics raises new questions about the textured treatment of culture/ethnicity-based American college sports team mascots (e.g., Florida State Seminoles, USC Trojans, San Diego State Aztecs, etc.).

Such dialogue surprisingly invites more 'philosophical public arena' debates, which explains the social appeal of real-time ESPN programs such as PTI (Pardon-the-Interruption).


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SHIVA: College athletics is a plague.
PENNYWISE: Profiteerism is the new bath.
SHIVA: Everyone likes Notre Dame (Indiana).
PENNYWISE: Even the Fightin' Irish want Lucky Charms breakfast cereal in cafeterias.
SHIVA: Collegiate athletics contracts are, by definition, layered (or 'glossy').
PENNYWISE: That's because the NCAA gets national TV coverage.
SHIVA: Saturday afternoons of Florida St. vs. Ohio St. football and chicken wings!
PENNYWISE: Americans suffer from cultural obesity and sell 'red-indian' team shirts!
SHIVA: On a more positive note, TV coverage of the NCAA inspires youngsters to go to college.
PENNYWISE: As long as the presentation is well-managed, there will be no 'slander gap.'

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Native-American mascot controversy (Wikipedia)

Dartmouth College race intrigue