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Harvard coaches, on the other hand, are faced with the job of winning games at a school which stresses academics. These coaches say the obstacles--juggling practice schedules to fit athletes' academic calendars and long layoffs during exam periods--present difficult but not insurmountable challenges...
...think that, in general, professors and section leaders kind of carry a grudge," hockey player Ed Krayer '89-'90 says. "They don't go out of their way to shaft an athlete but there is some animosity. They're not pleased when you miss their exam or their section or review...
...University of Kentucky is now preparing its formal responses to a list of stark charges made by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. They range from a falsified entrance exam to a recruiting payoff that, in what a fan from Indiana might call an act of God, burst in cash from a defective airfreight package. Conviction would probably result in probationary exclusion from tournaments and television. Then Kentucky would be within one felony of the NCAA's newfound "death penalty": a one- or two-year shutdown of the sort that has reduced the football program at Southern Methodist University to intramurals...
...controversial Silber agreed to allow five overnight visits by members of the same sex during the course of a semester. An outright ban would still be in force during the first two weeks of school and during exam periods...
...bore on. Despite continual pain and debilitating chemotherapy every other weekend, Tom gained a second remission and stayed in school, taking two classes in the fall and a full courseload in the spring and participating in intramural sports. He earned his degree at Harvard Summer School, finishing his last exam on August 19. The next day, while on vacation in Colorado, he relapsed one final time...