Big-time athletics at UNM has become an unconscionable drain on the institution’s real mission.
College Sports: Exploitation, Compensation or Education?

Nullius in verba
V.B. Price has lived in New Mexico since l958, mostly in Albuquerque’s North Valley, writing poetry, journalism and non-fiction. His website is vbprice.com.
Big-time athletics at UNM has become an unconscionable drain on the institution’s real mission.
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