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...League has recognized the trials of trying to be a football conference while keeping academic standards high, and as a result, introduced something in 1985 called an academic index (AI) to regulate the scholastic abilities of the incoming football players, of whom an average of 35 are allowed in each year...
...University went along with the AI in the hope of preserving academic integrity, it was at most a half-hearted effort. The schools are admitting, contrary to every public statement they make, that they put football players in a completely different admissions category, where the athlete clearly takes precedence over the student part of the student-athlete. The index takes the admission decision out of the realm of the University honor and insures it will bend its academic standards a set number of times in the search for gridiron glory...
Brown told the story of "Solo," a man who, even before the age of 25, was a kind of "90s local version of AI Capone...
...midterm scene got your down? Need a fast, inexpensive way to relieve some stress? Lose the Prozac, drop the T'ai Chi classes and pick up the pastime that's got the whole university buzzing with coffeetalk .Try knitting...
After his stint as a security guard, he intends to return to Korea to teach T'ai Chi there. According to Gim, Korea is lacking in qualified T'ai Chi instructors. "It's my calling," he avows...