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...Fred C. Davidson, who has presided over the Athens, Ga., campus for the past 19 years, resigned last Thursday after blasting the university's the wake of a scandal over the preferential academic treatment for student athletes...
...Davidson's resignation, effective July 1, comes a month after a federal court in Atlanta awarded former Georgia instructor Jan Kemp $2.57 million in damages in her suit against two university officials. Kemp had charged that she was fired for speaking out against preferential treatment of student athletes in Georgia's remedial Developmental Studies Program...
...Davidson, who favors the remedial program, came under increasing criticism after the verdict in the Kemp case. When the regents put his contract renewal on hold, the president resigned because of what he termed "a personal and professional insult...
...Gatto, who caught the final touchdown that cut the Yale lead to 29-27. He is now the head football coach at Davidson...
Over the summer, the presidents of Holy Cross, Colgate, Lafayette Lehigh, Bucknell and Davidson got together and decided to incorporate their school--all of similar sizes and background into a football conference...