The Olympic Idea--an acquired educational cooperative-competitive attitude toward sport--is an important concept for athletes. This ideal can and must transcend nationalistic zeal, ideological struggles, and the omnipresent profit motive. (Author/RJG)

After discussing the pros and cons of school- and non-school-sponsored national athletic competitions, the author presents a list of questions school boards can use in evaluating whether to let a student athlete participate in a non-school-sponsored sports event. (IRT)

Encourages the dismantling of the "corporatization" of higher education, asserting that the unalloyed promotion of the free market as the standard of value has, as Adelphi and Enron make clear, led neither to truth seeking nor to sound education. (EV)

Asserts that college rankings symbolize the increasing corporatization of higher education, and suggests that campuses should be evaluated on more than their resources. Encourages rankings to acknowledge the contributions of lower-profile institutions that serve the masses and make do with few resources. (EV)

Describes how, rather than compete with campus bookstores, the company once known as VarsityBooks.com now seeks to replace them at some colleges. (EV)

Using event-history analysis techniques, a longitudinal study of the semiconductor industry found that substantial technological innovation lengthens development times and reduces the speed with which first products reach the marketplace. Organizations that undertook lower levels of technological innovation had relatively lower monthly…

This article analyzes the meaning of ritual and reviews the literature on the relationship between sport and ritual. It suggests the sport-as-ritual model, which tends to denigrate the significance of sport as a distinctive cultural behavior, is of limited use in understanding this relationship. (IAH)

Contends that competition is, by definition, inherently good. The concern should be with the term "conflict," meaning conflict-based athletic interaction. Offers a model that attempts to reveal the dichotomous relationship between coaching and teaching in the competitive mode and the conflict-based athletic interactive mode. (Author/JOW)

Describes high school students' preparations for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition at the Kennedy Space Center. Provides step-by-step guidelines for participation. (JOW)

Discusses how the chancellor of the California State University System wants the system to be able to confer a doctorate in education. However, such degrees are the province of the University of California, which is vigorously opposing the initiative. (EV)

Explores how Pittsburgh's traditional colleges did not fight the for-profit University of Phoenix when it arrived, but are now going after a tiny for-profit institution, Potomac College, that wants to expand into the area. The colleges claim the school unnecessarily duplicates offerings they provide. (EV)

The Lambert Model Code of Governance proposes to institutionalise the dominance of governors from commercial and industrial organisations as core members of compact and effective boards controlling UK universities. It is the latest expression of a fashion for viewing university governance as an overly-simple example of an obsolete system, where…

Previous studies have failed to demonstrate lexically induced delays in phoneme recognition, casting doubt on interactive models of speech perception. We present TRACE simulations that explain these failures: previously tested conditions failed to produce lexically induced delay effects because the input was too unambiguous and the control…

The first year of coordinating a local Technology Student Association (TSA) leadership conference is the most challenging. An organizer will quickly learn from his or her successes and failures and will make appropriate adjustments the following year. Hosting a conference requires a lot of work but it is very rewarding. The benefits of being…

American economic strength and national security depend on our tradition of innovation. To ensure continued technological leadership in the world, President Bush announced the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) in his State of the Union address. The ACI commits $5.9 billion in FY 2007, and more than $136 billion over 10 years, to increase…