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...turned around and beaned the Chem jock...
...their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley, which is supposed to have such integrity, imagine what's going on at the jock-factory schools...
...grand jury, currently looking into gambling on basketball games, called in the head coach at Memphis State University, where only four out of 38 players have managed to graduate since 1973. In the nine-member Southwest Athletic Conference, more than half the colleges have been tainted by athletic scandals. Jock factories such as these have been the feeder schools for professional teams, acting in many cases more like farm teams than educational institutions. In the National Football League barely one-third of the players hold college degrees, and some estimates for the National Basketball Association are even lower...
...number of other colleges already have reforms in place. At the University of Michigan's flagship Ann Arbor campus, the grades and personal records of top high school recruits are carefully checked. No blatant jock courses are offered, and close to 80% of football lettermen have received their diplomas. At the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...