Rhetorical Analysis Of Get Football Out Of Our Universities By Salzberg

Football has taken U.S. Universities in hostage Steven Salzberg is a Bloomberg distinguished professor of Biomedical Engineering, computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Salzberg has also been a vocal advocate in favor of the teaching of evolution in schools and has authored editorials and appeared in print media on this topic. He writes a widely read column at Forbes magazine on Science, medicine, and pseudoscience. “Get Football out of Our Universities” is an article by him about the “evolution of teaching” in United States universities. American colleges spend huge budgets on their football teams and this holds a disproportionate place in the lives of its students. Salzberg uses the emotion of fear regarding the risk to America of losing its reputation if they don’t eliminate football in our Universities. It tells of his personal experiences in the area to make his readers believe in his credibility. These appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos along with his sarcastic tone create an effective argument for convincing readers that football affects our educational system and status in the world negatively compared to other nations. Salzberg makes appeals to pathos in the beginning of his article. His first paragraph is full

The remuneration of the coach shows how the management of football universities is out of control and how it undermines the integrity of schools and diverts the presidents of universities of their true vocation. The details built appeal to logos and impress upon the reader that this is a problem worth discussing. “That $ 2 million should have been spent on, well, how about educating the students?” (10). He makes the audience realize that is just