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Questions:

1. Imagine that you have transferred to a college or are working within higher education in a campus recreation center. Some of your student employees are interested in creating a Student Athlete's Bill of Rights. Among this bill of rights, they would like a formal mechanism by which to evaluate their coaches (outside of a senior exit survey conducted by their own coaches). Additionally, teams are interested in gaining additional cultural competency training for coaches after several incidents involving both GAs and coaches making insensitive remarks about students' mental health status. What are three pressure tactics that you might suggest that they use as they begin to garner support and increase visibility to these concerns?

2. Many in sport and fitness have used their voices and platforms to agitate for social change, sometimes in the face of great consequences. Using our course lectures and reading materials, describe 3 moments, groups, or individuals who took risks in order to advance a principled belief or cause. Explain the context and detail the consequence that they experienced as a result of the action.

3. Many American sporting figures contributed to a rich sporting history without being thrown out of their sport, profession, or having their livelihoods cut short. Who are three figures, movements, or groups whose actions were both important, but also fit more of an accommodationist framework.

4. Change in sport, recreation, and fitness comes by a number of ways: explain and provide 3 examples of each of the following: separatism, accommodationism, disruption and dismantling, sport and fitness as justice, and philanthropy as justice.

5. To what degree have girls and women made gains in sport and fitness in the past fifty years? What are two areas where there is still much room for improvement?

6. To what degree does labor unionism and collective bargaining improve the conditions of athletic workers? How is concerted activity used to advance the agendas of athletic talent and management?

7. There has been much criticism of the selection site of the most recent World Cup taking place in Quatar. How is this international sport spectacle reflective of the influence of political, institutional, and economic power in sport and recreation? Where have we seen similar tension in terms of stadium building and the planning of mega events?

8. How do you see sport, recreation, or fitness as a current vehicle for social change? Consider examples from our readings and class lectures.