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Americans would not tolerate a society where only those who could afford the best education could figure out the nation's currency, leaving the rest to develop a substandard bartering system. Similarly Americans should not tolerate the rapidly developing situation where the majority of the public communicates in a substandard slang and standard English is the property of the privileged. Slang confines those without a decent education to lives of limited expectations. Without a mastery of standard English, they will never be able to hold any but the lowest level jobs or to appreciate fully American culture and heritage...
Like other top schools, Harvard is struggling to find more good black students, who now account for only 7% of Cambridge undergraduates. One key reason for the shortage: substandard elementary and secondary schools, which tend to breed in major cities and rural areas, cut their pupils' chances for entry into a top college. "There is no way," says Jewett, "that we can make up for twelve missed years of education." The problem is intensified by the fact that a bare 1.4% of university faculty -- prime role models -- are black. This too is typical of many other universities. But Harvard faced...
...Billig's substandard performance at Bethesda should have come as no surprise. Before joining the staff there, he had been fired from two previous jobs, one at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., in 1980, and another with a Pittsburgh physicians' group in 1982. When he arrived at Bethesda the following year, he had not performed open-heart surgery in six years. Nonetheless, the Navy permitted him to undertake such operations after only six months of retraining. Last month Monmouth's chairman of surgery, Dr. Cyril Arvanitis, revealed that he had begun to suspect Billig after examining weekly reports...
...Atlanta federal jury served notice that the practice can be mighty costly. The case involved the University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star jocks with fourth-string grades, she was demoted and then fired by the university in 1983. In deep despair, she twice attempted...
Once in college, such athletes, many with token diplomas from substandard high schools, tend to be cosseted along in such courses as Food 1, Driver Education and Beginning Golf (which Williams reportedly flunked at Tulane). With that kind of schedule, an athlete may graduate, but he is prepared to do little more than play ball. Even at that, the odds against his cracking into professional sports are very poor (77 to 1 for basketball, 100 to 1 for football), and the few who do make it can count on an average playing career of no more than four years...