Reunion Event April 8 Features Views on the Conflicts and Benefits of Commercial College Sports

The economics and ethics of college sports is the topic of a Duke Magazine-Office Hours conversation at 2 p.m. Friday, April 8, in Duke's Card Gym. Those not able to attend can watch the discussion live on the Duke University Ustream channel and submit questions online.

Addressing the issue will be Charles Clotfelter ('69), Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, and author of the new book "Big-Time Sports in American Universities"; Alan Fishel (J.D. '86), lead counsel on Bowl Championship Series issues; Chris Kennedy (Ph.D. '79), Duke's deputy director of athletics; and Nancy Hogshead-Makar  ('86), Olympic gold-medal winner and professor at Florida Coastal School of Law. James E. Coleman Jr., the John S. Bradway Professor of Law at Duke Law School, will moderate the panel.

You can ask a question online by  sending an email before or during the event to live@duke.edu, tweeting with the tag #dukelive or posting to the Duke University Facebook page.

The forum, "College Sports: The Economics, Ethics, and Excesses of the Games We Love," is sponsored by Duke Magazine as part of Duke Reunions Weekend.

Like regular office hours when professors are available to discuss issues such as current events and developments in their fields, Duke's Office Hours webcast series is an informational resource aiming to bring the expansiveness and energy of these conversations to anyone with an Internet connection and an interest in ideas emerging at Duke. This semester, topics have ranged from national security reporting to the preaching of Martin Luther King Jr., marine life in Antarctica and the uprising in Egypt.