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.
Finally, former students and others at each instituion donate from their pockets, to promote their college as a font of school and community pride, for everyone involved, for the prestige of serving as leaders in various academic, intellectual, and civic fields.
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 they "Boo" them. After everyone has gone through so much effort to showcase the college and the community, to demonstrate what a college stands for, and what an enlightened and friendly community the college and community are, when visiting fans come through the tailgating areas, and when visiting teams enter the field, they are booed.
These are your best students? These are your graduates? These are the brightest and finest of your community? These are your leaders? This is what a college education produces?
This will not do. "Big time" has nothing to do with "lowlife".
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:
