#student athlete

[xianthepiper]

wangxian social media au where wwx, chaos incarnate, returns from his two-month suspension, becomes the talk of the town, and promptly decides to join the school publication team. oh and he’s exes-but-not-really-no-one-knows with lwj, who’s a student athlete.

i’d initially planned to post this on twt as a thread before i found out about the shitty update

should i??? or should i not…??

[quathxr]

so my volleyball season just ended, and I miss it so much 😭😭 so in order to cope I’ve been drawing volleyball poses! I’m really happy with the lighting in the jumping one :3 the drawings are of me and my best friend lol

[angelliicc]

i wish there was a way where if i don’t play up to my expectations i wouldn’t compare myself to every other player out there. i had an off day again i broke down and cried on the court trying to hide it from everyone. the mental battle as an athlete sucks

[flowersandemptyvoids]

What I've realized about being an athlete at a very rigorous school is that my sport is my non-academic life. I've been thinking of it wrong for a while, dividing things into school, sport, and life. But I don't have time to divide sport and life anymore. In terms of balance, my academics take up most of the day and the rest is my sport. What I do in my free time is my sport. My days look like classes, practice, and my remaining time is devoted to studying. I used to yearn for a time during the day during which to "live" as well, but this quarter (my school is on the quarter system) I am taking more classes than ever and can no longer afford to spend any free time *not* studying. Therefore I am reframing my mindset to see time spent at practice as my life and not just my sport. My sport is becoming my reason for enjoying the day, my time to socialize, and my time to live. It helps that most of my friends are on the team anyway, but this mindset is making practice time so much more valuable and helping me enjoy my sport more. I don't *have* to go to practice, I *get* to go to practice. It's a life of dedication that has become incredibly fulfilling for me.

[rowingcentral]

skipping school for a regatta is the best feeling ever.

[floridaboiler]

source - https://twitter.com/PurdueBaseball

[sunbeamworldschool]

Learn how online schooling provides student-athletes with the flexibility to excel in both academics and sports. Discover the benefits of personalized learning schedules tailored to meet their unique needs

[sleepyleftistdemon]

NAACP leader Derrick Johnson has urged Black student-athletes to reconsider attending universities in Florida amid its crackdown on DEI, which includes new legislation barring schools from using federal or state funds on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. In a letter addressed to current and future student-athletes, NBC reported that Johnson implored them to “choose wisely” about which institution they want to rake in millions for. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion are paramount to ensuring equitable and effective educational outcomes,” he said. “The value Black and other college athletes bring to large universities is unmatched.” Johnson told Black athletes they shouldn’t attend universities that “are unable to completely invest” in them. The new anti-DEI legislation, passed in January at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has already led the state’s flagship institution, the University of Florida, to eliminate all DEI positions last week—a move that was condemned by NFL legend Emmitt Smith, an alumni of the university. “I’m utterly disgusted by UF’s decision and the precedent that it sets,” he said, adding that history shows that “a team of leaders all made up of the same background” don’t always “make the right decision when it comes to equality and diversity.”

Maybe do that for ALL red states...

[coachrich8]

Adapting from Club/High School Sports to the Next Level: Unexpected Challenges of Mindset and Mental Health

The transition from club or high school sports to a more competitive level, like college or professional leagues, is often framed as a thrilling step filled with athletic and academic opportunities. While those aspects hold true, the adjustment can also reveal unforeseen challenges related to mindset and mental health. This article delves into the hidden hurdles young athletes might face and…

[mumblesplash]

(teaching my art class)

me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?

a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-

me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald

gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-

me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa

[recreation-law]

Florida Appellate court throws out release signed by student-athlete who died because release was not written according to the requirements of Florida law.

Poorly written release that failed to stop claim by the family of a deceased scholarship athlete Estate of Blakely v. Stetson Univ. (Fla. App. 2022) State: Florida; Florida Court of Appeals, Fifth District Plaintiff: THE ESTATE OF NICHOLAS ADAM BLAKELY, BY AND THROUGH MICHELLE WILSON, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Defendant: STETSON UNIVERSITY, INC Plaintiff Claims: Defendant Defenses:…

[silksufjan]

fan artists i beg you to draw jean with a knee brace . any sports med program worth their salt would put jean in an knee brace (ideally) with a hard plastic hinge for stability for a while but even after that point probably a compression knee sleeve… include it and u would have my heart <3

[lupucs]

Jockington in 3D! ⚽️

He used to be an ugly png (I attached my awful scribble for you to see. I used that png in several of my animations except for the Susie xmas one), so I decided to give him a proper model for future cameos lol

[horny-athletes]

Why do male athletes endure grueling training and train their bodies beautifully? Their motivation is not only the glory of victory. They have their own secret pleasure. This film reveals that secret.

Daniel, the protagonist of this film, is a promising freshman on a college football team. After practice, in the locker room, he is fascinated by his teammates' beautifully toned bodies.

Daniel is confused by his lust for his teammates' bodies. As if to encourage this, his teammates intensely desire each other's bodies and show Daniel the lewd and lascivious way in which men have sex with each other.

They suck each other's cocks lovingly and ejaculate repeatedly while getting fucked in the anus. It is a secret pleasure that can only be experienced between men. Daniel's cock erects so hard that he can clearly see its shape even through his uniform. Daniel is bewildered by the dreamlike scene unfolding before his eyes, but eventually he pulls down his spats and shows his erect cock to his teammates.

In addition to this shocking scene, the film painstakingly depicts how Daniel learns about male-on-male sex in the locker room and how it strengthens his unshakable bond with his teammates.

It is a masterpiece that depicts the secrets of strength and beauty in male athletes and how one young man grows into a mature man through the pleasures of male-on-male sex.

[transmutationisms]

(If you're alrght with another poorly articulated question from an obnoxious high schooler) Do you have thoughts on academics and their position in a labor framework? I know some grad students and have never been quite sure where they fit because they don't always work with "capital" in a traditional sense. Professors are odd to me because they are under university contract, but rather than get paid by the university they often get their own funding from the government. Or graduate sudents, who are often unionized, but I know a paleontology student who studies shark fossils who says he doesnt really consider what he does "making surplus value."

ok well that last person is simply confused lol. graduate students exist because the university profits from having us; it is a capitalist institution. most directly we usually work as teaching assistants or research assistants (or else pay tuition) and more indirectly, graduate programs get funding and university support because their existence contributes to a university's rankings, prestige factor, &c, which is to say its (perceived) profitability. plenty of us study things that don't produce much directly lucrative research, but this does not mean the university keeps us around for shits and giggles or some kind of laudatory interest in knowledge for its own sake. it is a capitalist institution and acts in the financial interest of its owners / beneficiaries.

anyway wrt faculty members, they are also employed by the university because it profits from them (or hopes to, anyway). i think many people get confused by tenureship; tenure is indeed fairly cushy as far as employment contracts go, but it is is still an employment contract, and most faculty are not actually tenured anyway. academics are a classic example of the 'professional-managerial class', which is not a marxian term but is a useful one for identifying those 'upper-middle class' members differentiated by their professional qualifications and status; the prestige and perceived utility of academic knowledge production is partially what makes academics an attractive target for a lot of government and NGO funding. state funding of academic research ofc has numerous functions but, and not to put too fine a point on it, a capitalist state also invests money in things because it is hoping for some kind of return on investment, eg in the form of directly profitable inventions, soft power, &c.

there are distinctions here between different academic employment statuses. an adjunct or contingent hire is paid by the university solely to teach, making their labourer status fairly straightforward. with tenured or tenure-track positions, yes there may also be money coming from outside; however, this doesn't negate the fact that the university is trying to profit from its faculty (else it wouldn't hire them). the professional-managerial class has certain characteristics of both proletariat and bourgeoisie, and there is some variation between academics as a very select few do attain the kind of household name status that can turn them into basically a personal brand. again though: the university wants to extract value from the work (both teaching and research) of academics it hires, and so do outside sources of funding for research projects. knowledge production should not be mystified or abstracted in ways that obfuscate the financial interests of involved parties; though it attains a prestige that few other commodities do, this is still a process that is embedded within the overall operating logics of capitalism.

an additional consideration wrt internal academic class politics is that many faculty use graduate students, postdocs, and even undergrads to perform or assist with their research. these arrangements vary in structure (and between disciplines) but in general, this does mean that many academics produce papers, books, &c that depend upon the labour of many people and rarely compensate these people equally to themselves. this can take the form of a more overtly employer-employee relationship between a professor and their underlings (for example, some labs are run this way) or it can be the case that it's another party (a publisher, say) who is reaping most of the surplus value squeezed from grad / undergrad / postdoc labour. in any case it is important to keep in mind that professors can and often do take on employer (ie, small capitalist) roles in relation to other employees of the university, even though the professors themselves are there because the university and other institutions pay them and profit from their labour.

i hope this is a useful start; obviously there is lots else to be said about the economics of the university and knowledge production as a capitalist process. in general when you are trying to think through this my advice would be not to let the presentation of the university as some kind of cerebral place of enlightenment confuse a materialist analysis of the flows of capital. plenty of workers and capitalists deal with commodities that are immaterial in the sense that 'knowledge' is, or are imbued with similar social meaning and value; the university deals with knowledge production but this does not make it any less an employer (ie, a capitalist institution) than any other institution operating in a capitalist context.