According to the NY times a number of colleges (such as LSU, CU Boulder, and TCU), are working with sportsbook companies that want to introduce students to online gambling. I wonder how parents here feel about paying for their kids to attend such colleges?
I couldn’t find any other mentions of the article here. Hopefully people will be access this link:
I think all schools should tie up with gambling companies with a condition that no student ever have to pay a penny to pursue their education. That way, we can’t stop deteriorating situation anyway, but at least some kids/families benefit.
Student community should also object to any such deals that goes against the very spirit of education.
The entire college-business is moving away from preserving sanctity of education to turning students to making making machines. I am deeply worried about the so-called holistic process of various top universities as they somehow produced people like FTX’s SBF who didn’t hesitate to loot common people money to satisfy his ego.
The sheds a whole new light on the “chance me” threads.
This is a new low. I realize that colleges need to find alternative revenue streams, but this is not an appropriate avenue to achieve that end.
Completely gross.
Can’t read the article due to paywall. Does it name specific universities?
Haha! Good one!
Lol 
I missed that.
Louisiana State and Michigan State.
God, why don’t they add slot machines and blackjack tables in the student unions? Maybe make horse racing an NCAA sport too…
Maybe a lottery for diplomas (or honors)?
I think the worst aspect of this is probably that some colleges are getting kickbacks. That is to say, they are being paid when a student downloads their app and places a bet using a special promo code. Perhaps we will soon see the high rollers getting a GPA boost for their usage.
A shameless attempt at Likes on my part. 
Seems like a pretty questionable idea (at best). Especially considering some of the schools you mentioned are pretty high level athletic universities. I agree with despo-dad that if they want to foot the bill for the students education it might be okay.