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Sweeping down court on the attack, the University of Utah's heron-legged Bill ("The Hill") McGill is one of the basketball phenomena of the year-a 6-ft. 9-in., 215-lb. giant who can nevertheless dribble with the slick speed of a sawed-off backcourt man and get off every shot in the book, ranging from arching hooks to driving layups. Last week McGill's average was up to 28.7 points a game, the fourth highest in the nation. Shrugged the University of Denver's Coach Hoyt Brawner after losing to Utah...
...Critics' Committee. Brought up in Los Angeles, the son of an impoverished Negro family, McGill blossomed into the best big basketball player ever developed in a California high school. But to the anguish of the University of California's Coach Pete Newell, McGill's high school grades were as bad as his basketball was good. To better the chances of shoe-horning Billy into Cal, Newell imported him to San Francisco for his last high school term. McGill's grades rose, but not enough. When he found that he would have to prep at a junior...
...hurt McGill badly in the eyes of many other faculty members, who were convinced the university had sold its soul to buy a basketball star. The faculty remained hostile even after McGill was refused a scholarship and had to sell his secondhand car to help pay his way to Utah. Says one Utah professor: "I know for a fact that in the English department every paper McGill wrote was passed around for inspection to as many as seven different instructors." The uproar grew so loud that the university finally raised its admissions standards for out-of-state students to help...
...Hunting. Despite the faculty cabal, McGill grimly hung on, working harder at his desk than he did on the practice court. By last week McGill, now a junior, had absorbed enough tutoring and put out enough effort to raise his grades to a C+ average-a level sufficiently elevated to allow him time to work on his defensive game, which by his own admission still needs improvement. Impressed by his earnestness, most faculty members have stopped hunting for flaws in McGill's performance, whether on the court or in the classroom. But Bill the Hill is under no illusion...
Next term Dunster House will offer a series of five seminars on India. The program will feature five speakers, all authors of books assigned in the course, they are: Asoka Mehta, national chairman of the Praja Socialist Party; Michael Brecher, professor of political science at McGill University; Edward Shils, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago; Albert Mayer, a development adviser in India; and Selig Harrison, associate editor of the New Republic...