Word: jock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such attitudes are not altogether unknown in the 3,000-member Mustang Club, an S.M.U.-based organization whose dollars have helped underpin S.M.U.'s record as a jock palace (three Bowl games and a No. 2 national ranking in the past six years). Says one faculty member: "Only being No. 1 counts for anything . . . getting there is all that counts as long as you don't land in jail." Advocates of this hard-line boosterism hoped that S.M.U. could skate past the death penalty and be back to business as usual in '88 after the probation ends...
...home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young...
Barrett said he knew LoPresti slightly as an undergraduate. "He was a better jock, and I was a better journalist," he said, adding that the incumbent senator had better grades...
...GOTTA love Falwell," an Undergraduate Council jock told me as we crossed Mass. Ave, after the forum. Although Falwell began his career in a church that would have excluded my friend on the basis of race, he wasn't entirely off the mark...
Respecting the student in a jock strap is one thing; outright favoritism is another. Restructuring an entire course to save 45 minutes of football practice for a handful of students can be called nothing else. The Ec Department needs to rethink its committment to all of its students, rather than rolling a red carpet towards the playing field...