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Starting in the fall, the 100 students will be responsible for assembling a profitable portfolio of stocks, bonds and other investments. Professors Stephen Buser and Anthony Sanders plan to steer them into cautious investments. The goal is to match the percentage gain of the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Says Sanders: "Like any fund managers, if we lose a lot of money, we'll be terminated." Flunked...
Also, the Academic Index should be abolished. The Index, which applies solely to potential athletes in major sports, is composed of class rank, SAT and Achievement Test scores. Any athlete who falls below 161 on the Index cannot be recruited...
...Index discriminates against athletes. There is no such index for musicians or actors or poets. Imagine the Harvard English Department being unable to approach a promising writer because his or her Index score was below...
...Index is also elitist, as Brown basketball Coach Mike Cingiser says. It favors those students who are able to buy a spot in an SAT class or go to private or prep schools geared toward preparing students for college entrance tests...
...competition in the Ivy League is much lower than in other conferences. The result is that the Ivy League champ has to face the very best teams in the nation--the Syracuses, North Carolinas and Arizonas. As long as the Ivy League continues to adhere strictly to the Academic Index and allow top basketball players to be lured away to other schools by scholarships, the League will continue to decline, coaches...