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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...
...rule sparked massive protests from college coaches. At the center of the controversy is the alleged racial bias of the rule: 83 percent of the approximately 700 partial qualifiers sitting out under Proposition 48 are Blacks...
Georgetown's Thompson complains that Proposition 42 discriminates against Blacks because it deprives only the disadvantaged of the means to get a college education. Presumably, wealthy, academically deficient athletes will still be able to pay their own way and sit out a year under the partial qualifier rule...