The Promise of Sociology

“The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances. In many ways it is a terrible lesson; in many ways it is a magnificent one.” (para 9)

            This large quote is a very bold statement and hopefully true of the select few Ohio State Football players that decided to trade their hard earned medallions for various services. To me, doing this kind of act shows that they have no respect for not only their team, but also what Ohio State stands for. Ohio State is a well known school with high standards for admission as well as for athletics.

I can remember watching Terrelle Pryor play in the Navy Game and giving both Michigan and Ohio State fans a fit with him switching back and forth between both teams. He was so proud that day that he finally got to reveal his team of choice. What happened to that pride? How could such a talented athlete lose sight of what he worked so hard for to represent?

Pryor is not the only athlete on the team that made this mistake. It is unfortunate that he is the one that is getting most of the heat from the media, though he represents a huge part of the program at Ohio State. I am sure that this group of boys is not the first group to have done such an unthinkable thing, but as a whole, I hope that they are learning from their mistakes and that something like this does not happen again in the future. That other may learn from their mistakes so history does not repeat itself.

“In many ways it is a terrible lesson; in many ways it is a magnificent one.” How true this statement is. It is a terrible lesson to learn for the boys in question, but a magnificent one because Ohio State football is such a widely known program, that it is getting a great deal of media attention so that other athletes do not do this in the future.

Who I Am

My name is Kallie Hitchings. I am a graduate student majoring in Kinesiology in the school of HMSLS. I completed my undergraduate degree here in Exercise Science.

As you can see from the picture, this is my brother. He obviously loves me so much... We are twins and he has recently moved to North Carolina for a job opportunity in Criminal Justice. He also has an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green.

I really enjoy watching college football games with Bowling Green and Ohio State being my favorite teams, in that order. I feel that the Ohio State team has a classy program, all though there is much to be desired with the issues now. I also love BG football not only because I am a student here, but also because my cousin has played on the team. Other than college football, I am not up to date with other sports. My hope is that this Sport and Society class will update my knowledge of sports and give me more of a drive to keep up with historical sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup.

My ultimate goal is to work with childhood obesity. Ever since I was in grade school, I began to notice the choices of food that kids made at lunch and also how big those kids were. From this statement, it seems like I would be a Dietetics major, but I have found that I enjoy human movement more than studying foods. I would really like to focus my research in this are, though I am not sure if I would like to do a project or a thesis. I am leaning more towards a thesis so I can still have the opportunity to get my PhD in the future.

As I stated in class, I am not very competent in sports. I have not played many, nor do I understand the rules. The biggest concern I have for taking this class is that I will not understand what others are talking about in class. My hope is that taking this class will help me take interest in watching and learning about sports. Being able to understand sports more might help me with a potential thesis with children, or using sports to keep children, as well as adults, exercising without them realizing it.