#student-athletes

[historyofguns]

The article "Hillsdale College Dominates USPSA Collegiate Championship" by Scott Wagner, published on The Armory Life, details the impressive achievements of the Hillsdale College Action Shooting Team. The team recently demonstrated their prowess by securing top finishes at the inaugural United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) Collegiate Championship held at Hillsdale's John A. Halter Shooting Sports Education Center, following their consecutive national wins in the Scholastic Action Shooting Program in 2022 and 2023. Notable team members including Taylor Chen, Kayla Mullin, and Clara Bozzay excelled in individual divisions, contributing to the team's overall success. The event, sponsored primarily by Springfield Armory, featured diverse competitors and a unique match structure that fostered camaraderie and shared expertise among participants from various institutions such as the United States Naval Academy, Clemson University, and Michigan State University. The article emphasizes the strong institutional support for the Hillsdale shooting program and highlights the significance of their state-of-the-art facilities funded through private donations. It celebrates the remarkable achievements of the team under the guidance of Head Coach Adam Burlew and highlights the harmonious blend of competition and sportsmanship displayed throughout the event.

[trendynewsnow]

The U.C.L.A. Bruins' Extensive Travel in the New Big Ten Era

The Long Journey of the U.C.L.A. Bruins Football Team This season, playing football for the U.C.L.A. Bruins means embarking on an extensive travel schedule, one that feels more like that of a seasoned traveler than a college athlete. The journey commenced in August with a victorious outing at the University of Hawaii. Following this initial triumph, the Bruins embarked on a series of challenging…

[dhart4214]

MY IDEA FOR A NEW COLLEGE SPORTS CONFERENCE

The annual climax of the collegiate version of this sport is coming soon… I’M GOING TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST… I reckon it’s because I’m rapidly becoming an old so-called “fuddy-duddy” who, being that it’s approaching three and a half decades since I earned my bachelor’s degree, prefers the way things used to be. But… I DO NOT like the direction that college sports in general – particularly…

[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

[nationallawreview]

Division I Universities Must Be Ready for Changes to the NCAA Infractions Process

Division I Universities Must Be Ready for Changes to the NCAA Infractions Process

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has adopted key changes to the way in which NCAA infractions matters will be investigated and processed in the future. The changes, which take effect on January 1, 2023, are intended to modernize and enhance the process, while focusing resources on the most serious violations. Another objective is to reduce the time needed to process and resolve violation…

[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

[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.

[ninyard]

Omg Aaron Minyard the Murderer tweets…if u do this i would literally become deranged but like. This exchange is rotating in my mind 24/7…Minyard murdered someone ‘the goal keep? Not surprising.’ ‘NO THE OTHER ONE’ ‘not a normal kid in the foxes smh. Anyways stan the ravens…we might not have kevin but at least our players leave the violence on court’ ‘Trojan stans looking at both ur teams: Couldn’t Be Me’

I’m working on this one next!!! I’ve made a fake news channel to report the news of the murder lmao and most of the Exy fan tweets consist of yoooo typo????? you said Aaron when you meant Andrew????? And exynewsdaily are like unfortunately not :/

Trojan stans are literally in the corner watching this season unfold like

[omegaversereloaded]

I need to move to another city, my nice gothy outfits are wasted here in boston

[kitnita]

logan’s biggest contribution to the team, bar none, is effortlessly making wyatt seem like even more of a dork than i’d already assumed he was

[demons-art-hell]

Day 7: Happy Memory

Confession hours bebee

Probably not actually how it goes but it would be similar Not something I've planned out yet

[babe-storage]

Sydney Smith

[coolpointsetta]

slightly nsfw

student!iwaizumi who gets so excited when oikawa visits because he has someone to practice on for labs and practicals. oikawa is always happy to help out and claims he has the ‘best muscle definition to work with’ since he is a full-time athlete. he finds it really interesting to listen to all the cool things his smart iwa-chan is learning (and it’s really sexy to watch)

only…no real studying gets done…you’d think that this would be oikawa’s fault, as he’s usually the one to break up serious or calm moments with make out sessions but…

oikawa, on his stomach: okay, find my C7 vertebrae

iwaizumi: alright yeah easy

oikawa:

iwaizumi:

oikawa: that’s my ass, iwa-chan

iwaizumi: well would you look at that it is

or

oikawa: i should have seen this coming

iwaizumi: i really need to practice!

oikawa: YOU DONT NEED TO MASSAGE MY PECS FOR TEN WHOLE MINUTES

iwaizumi: oh so you want me to fail

OR!!

oikawa: iwaizumi hajime i swear to GOD

iwaizumi: what? i was genuinely checking your pulse! there is an artery by your genitals!

oikawa: CHECK IT SOMEWHERE ELSE! GET YOUR HAND AWAY FROM MY ASS -

and it’s really really really great until iwaizumi actually needs to test out on the body systems but he now associates the cervical vertebrae with sexy time so he has to think about old wrinkly cats instead of the muscles he really should have been practicing so he doesn’t get a boner in front of his professor

[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…??

[choccy-milky]

Coming to share some much deserved positivity :

I have a hard time committing to reading long fanfictions so I don’t really read any aside from one shots.

I am still an avid follower of yours because your art and drawings are INSANELY GOOD. Like, professional-looking good. Criminal-it’s-only-fan-art-and-not-paid-art good 😂. I’m thirsty for every drawing you throw at us in your magnanimity, there’s that pinch sweetness into it.. idk how to even describe it. I may even download them into a file on my phone to have a look from time to time with all my favourite artists… 👀

Anyway, I am awed by people like you who produce an insane amount of content that takes TIME and DEDICATION, FOR FREE. Sharing entertainment like you do is admirable and should only be rewarded with positivity.

I am really grateful for what you all dedicated creative people in the Hogwarts Legacy fandom share with us 💕🌸.

Ended up having fun drawing Clora, but I don’t have your talent.

Damn I can’t send a picture while being anonymous on Tumblr, well here goes my online social anxiety…will I hit send…..

OH MYYY GOD WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE YALL OMG also you do NOT need to worry about the fact you havent read my fic, 500k words (and counting) is a commitment LMFAO. but im glad you like my art sm, and thank you for the support!!😭AND ALSO FOR THAT CUTE ASS DRAWING OF CLORA SHES PRECIOUS im so glad u sent this even tho it wouldnt let you send it on anon BAHAHA (i get it tho i also hate sending messages off anon, even tho theyre just nice ones LOL) AND U DO HAVE TALENT look at her shes so adorable and the way you coloured her so softly and with like those watercolour looking textures is so nice to look at, im glad you had fun drawing her!!💖 AND NOW MY MODERN AU BRAINROT IS EVEN STRONGER SO TY FOR THE FOOD🤤🤤