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Take the case of Reggie Ford. As a 6-ft. 4-in. senior at Marion High School in rural South Carolina three years ago, Reggie was an All-State center. More than a dozen universities salivated over his 22-points-a-game average. They paid little mind to his scant 2.0 grade-point average. It was Bob Battisti, coach of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, who persuaded Reggie to attend his school. What won him over, said Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn...
...pretense of amateurism. Others insist that all athletic scholarships be scrapped. Senator Bill Bradley, a former college and pro-basketball star, has proposed federal legislation requiring that schools disclose their student athletes' graduation rates. It's a solid idea -- one the NCAA should have taken the lead in long ago...
...post in 1982 and re-elected in 1986 with 60% of the vote. His foes realize they would be unlikely to whip him at the polls, so they want to abolish his job and replace it with a panel appointed by the Governor. Hightower forced the showdown two months ago, when he made the surprise decision to pass up a race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm and instead run for re- election in 1990. Then he promptly spurred a ruckus with his plan to promote hormone-free Texas beef. The proposal angered many cattlemen in part because...
Imagine a college class without tests or term papers, one in which students come face-to-face with some of the most talented people in American life. We did, not long ago, and now TIME is sponsoring an extraordinary lecture series at New York University's School of Continuing Education called "The Creative Edge." Organized by Richard Brown, an assistant professor of humanities, the program uses both film and live interviews to explore the creative process of six great artists: writers Arthur Miller and Tom Wolfe, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, actress Helen Hayes and photographer Yousuf...
...sponsorship of the N.Y.U. program is part of a long-standing tradition of support for education and the arts. Since 1935, the TIME Education Program has helped teachers put our magazine to use in the classroom. Three years ago, we began awarding $3,000 scholarships to 20 outstanding college students from around the country for their academic and extracurricular achievements. We have donated more than 1,500 original artworks made for TIME covers to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, where they are permanently displayed...