[Magdalen] Major athletic scandal

[Kate Conant]

As near to truth as it is, this is still the Borowitz Report, which is as
true as the Onion.

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 10/23/2014 10:10:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> few  members of U.N.C. sports teams >>>
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> You know, I get pissed by the enormous attention athletes get  starting
> at the high school level.  I guess this is heavily because I was  not
> the least bit athletic.  OTOH, I excelled in speech, debate, sang in  the
> high school choir, and played a mean Sousaphone in high school, and
> you never saw anyone fawning over me or my peers.
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> It's all part of this continued (male especially) fixation on sports,
> particularly
> football.(pronounced locally at a very fast, clipped  pace as  FUH-buh).
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> I am naturally interested in the Big Ten, but I have to check on the
> Notre Dame scores weekly so I can talk with any of the natives.  Ditto  the
> Eagles and the Steelers.  ("What do you think of those Eagles?")
>
> Of course they are fixated here on Penn State, but I have flags of
> Wisconsin and Minnesota flying from my deck (I have degrees from both
> schools) in order to shock the natives.
>
> Anyway, I'm not surprised at the athletes' fudged courses and grades.
> The big money maker for colleges is football, and they'll do anything
> to keep the teams going.
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> D.
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