Word: kemp
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...their scramble to recruit star athletes and keep them in school, many colleges condone low academic standards for jocks. Last week an Atlanta federal jury served notice that the practice can be mighty costly. The case involved the University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star...
...Then Kemp sought a very different resolution for her anguish. Charging violation of her right of free speech, she sued the university, in the persons of Leroy Ervin Jr., her remedial-program supervisor, and Virginia Trotter, vice president for academic affairs, who had dismissed Kemp on grounds of insubordination and insufficient scholarly research. Ending a five-week trial, the six-member jury decided on a stunning judgment of $2.5 million to Kemp. Said Trotter, in the understatement of the season: "I was certainly surprised...
...rest of Georgia, a state with deep pride in the university and its football team. "I fainted," said Governor Joe Frank Harris, adding that the judgment "appears to be excessive." But the jury was having none of that. They had heard Kemp's former colleagues and students, many of them athletes, testify to her excellence as an instructor. The administrators had conceded that athletes were often carried, and their lawyer argued that if an illiterate jock learned to read at Georgia and thus became a mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape...
...most closely watched national figure was Vice President Bush, who has been conducting a highly visible courtship of conservative support in an attempt to deny it to longtime Movement Hero Jack Kemp. The first tangible evidence that Bush's strategy may be paying off emerged Saturday, when the results of an annual poll of some 400 conservative true believers were announced. In a field of ten hypothetical G.O.P. presidential candidates, Bush wound up a clear and surprising first, with 36.3% of the vote. That was better than double the 16.9% share accorded Kemp, who was last year's winner. Ever...
...Kemp party countered the Bush poll with one of their own, which showed the Congressman leading Bush 55% to 12%. The Congressman's appearance on the conference platform was attended by convention-like atmospherics, with youthful supporters waving placards and shouting "We want Kemp!" Addressing members of the audience as "fellow revolutionaries," Kemp assured them that "our ideas are on the march and nothing can stop them." He drew loud applause with a pledge not only to pursue research on Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative but also to deploy it. That is a matter on which Reagan has still...