Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loophole in the 1983 rule allowed "partial qualifiers," students with a 2.0 high school GPA who didn't make the requisite standardized test score, to attend college on athletic scholarships for one year. Although partial qualifiers lost one year of athletic eligibility and were not permitted to compete in their first year, they had a chance to gain eligibility by posting a 2.0 GPA during that year...
...problem with this loophole is that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...
University of Georgia instructor Jan Kemp was dismissed from the faculty after complaining about the coddling treatment given to partial qualifiers in the school's remedial studies program. She sued the university and received $ 1.8 million in a negotiated settlement...
...response to the controversy, Georgia President Fred Davidson ordered the university's coaches not to accept any more partial qualifiers. Because this rule would place Georgia's teams at a competitive disadvantage, the coaches successfully lobbied the Southeast Conference (SEC) to adopt the regulation for all of its member schools...
...Commissioner Harvey Schiller then petitioned the NCAA to close the partial qualifier loophole for all colleges. Last Wednesday at their annual convention in San Francisco, the NCAA adopted Proposition 42 by a 163-151 vote...