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...perceived flaws that these works unearthed. The athletic rollback movement culminated in the 2003 cutbacks at the Council of Ivy Group Presidents’ spring meeting, which, among other things, cut the size of incoming football recruiting classes from 35 to 30, raised the Academic Index (AI) floor from 169 to 171 and cut the number of full-time and part-time football coaches...
...fact, this may have been one of Lincoln’s primary objectives for producing this work. He spends an entire chapter attacking the Game of Life premise that incoming student-athletes with low AIs are more likely to underachieve than their classmates. He points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work?...
...black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented imprint sometime in the near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen-ai books - the gay-themed soapers that traditionally appeal to girls. Pantheon will be publishing Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22, the "Leopold and Loeb" issue, with all new material, fleshing it out to a full graphic novel. The artist known only as Rebecca, author of the porno series "Housewives at Play...
...recruiting a highly touted high school student, Russell contacted the athlete’s guidance counselor to inquire about his academic standing. According to Russell, because the student’s school did not supply Harvard with class rank, the recruit’s Academic Index (AI)—a combination of a student’s SAT and SAT II scores, as well as class rank—made admission unlikely...
...student was not going to attend Harvard because his AI was computed far below what it should have been,” Russell said. “The student was going to finish third in his class, but his school reported it as ‘top 20 percent.’ I was disappointed that the AI was far below what I had computed [when including his actual class rank...