All across the US, in all colleges, many college sports fans make great efforts to host opposing teams and their supports to join them, to provide them with the best in hospitality. At the same time, the home team college expends much money marketing games, to encourage other teams and their supports to visit, which increases attendance, which boosts revenues for the teams, and also generates support for all of the college’s programs.
All the while, local elected and civic bodies invest their energy, time, and funds to enhance the local institution, partly to attracts tourists- particularly opposing teams and their fans- into the local economy.
Moreover, alumni and fans of each college donate their own money to the alma mater, to serve as a vehicle for community and school pride, for the fans and the students, and so that other schools will begin to see them as leaders in various areas.
And after all that, when opposing schools visit, there will always be some students and fans who insult these people. Curse them. Make obscene gestures at them.
And perhaps most vulgar, they “Boo”. After all of that effort, attempting to show off the institution and the town, attempting to prove what higher education is all about, and working to prove what a civilized and warm college and community they are, when the opponents walk through the tailgating, and worse– when the opposing teams take the field– the crowd boos them.
These are what college education is all about? These are your students, your alumni? These are the smartest and best of your community? These is your source of leadership? This is the quality of your college degree?
Somewhere, people need to learn that “big time” and “low class” are not synonyms.
But happens everywhere, all across the country. It’s not a secret, everyone recognizes it. But they do nothing anything about it.
This simply cannot be tolerated. It is time for the student governments, the college administrations, the alumni associations, and the athletics departments to do what a University is supposed to do:
Educate our students and supporters to know better.
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