Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deft strokes, crumpling up sketches one after another and sipping hot tea from a tall glass. Interruptions are constant. "No!" he barks, surveying a list of proposed models. "We need someone with de vraies fesses -- a real fanny." The sultry beauties who glower through most French fashion shows must learn to prance, dance, skip and even smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning a fold there...
...sight of the fans and boosters, college basketball presents a sometimes sordid, often tragic scene of young men -- some even functionally illiterate or learning disabled -- trying desperately to keep up with their work. Some, unable to read an exam, must be read the questions aloud and respond with oral answers. Some were wooed by recruiters who could not make good on promises of tutors and extra study time. And some have found themselves befriended by unscrupulous agents and professional gamblers...
...John Slaughter, president of Occidental College. Of the thousands who do not make the N.B.A., a few will play pro ball overseas or for the Continental Basketball Association, where salaries average $8,000 a year. But most discover that there is no career for them in basketball, that they must rely on their educations to build a new career. After playing four years, many leave school without a degree...
Each year, says Carmichael, he has a couple of players who are unable to read their exams or write intelligible answers. For them, he must read the exam aloud and accept oral responses. "There's something wrong with the fact that they arrive here functionally illiterate," steams Carmichael. "It means they were probably treated as a piece of meat somewhere else. What are their chances? Probably 1 in 50. It isn't fair to anybody...
...NCAA has thus far shown more sensitivity to its own tarnished image than to the plight of student athletes. Says Tulane University President Eamon Kelly: "The NCAA has been part of the problem, not part of the solution." If that body is to retain any credibility, it must take practical steps to ensure student athletes the same educational chances and responsibilities as other students...