Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruits and a ceiling of 95 football scholarships overall, Paterno rarely recruited more than 25 players a year. By comparison, Oklahoma bestowed 40 to 50 scholarships a year before the new limits were imposed. Players point proudly to the absence of a jock aristocracy on the 27,000-student Penn State campus. There is no lush special housing for players; they live in regular dormitories, and curfews are virtually unknown. No player is allowed to lighten his academic load during the season, and some 94% of Penn State's footballers graduate on schedule after four years. Proclaims Paterno: "Football...
...know, the other day I was in New York and this college student came up to me and introduced himself. Turns out I had tutored his father when he was in high school in Brooklyn." Kaplan sighs and smiles. "If his Dad had told me way back then that I'd have 80 centers and a place like this," he continues, "I would have told him to have his head examined...
...doctor didn't create the epidemic," he says in defense of accusations that he plays on student's fears. "The anxiety is there--remember that the students come to me for help." Kaplan does admit, however, that he has done a lot more advertising lately in "self-defense. I want the students to have a choice between us and some of those other test-prep organizations...
...Some student groups--organized in the Third World Caucus, a coalition supporting a strong minority admissions program--find the administration's proposals hard to accept...
...Harvard graduate student has been recently selected as one of a few American students to participate next year in the first official student exchange program between the People's Republic of China and the United States...