John Shelton Reed,a UNC sociology professor for 31 years, sat on the special-admits committee in the mid-’80s and recalls three athletes – one a men’s basketball player – being admitted with rock-bottom SAT scores of 200. That was possible then under NCAA rules but far from the norm for most UNC athletes. Reed and two colleagues voted no, lost, and moved on. “To this day I regret that I didn’t blow the whistle right then and there,” Reed says.
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As the athletic budget was expanding from $9.1 million in 1984 to $83 million last year, no one in power saw that a department with that much weight would seduce, intimidate, or alter everything in its orbit.
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“I have hanging in my home office a framed Distinguished Alumnus award that the university was kind to give me about twenty-five years ago. It’s always meant a lot to me. But I look at it now and think, Jesus, do I really want that on my wall?”
March 13th, 2015 at 5:35PM
In the early 1970s, a classmate scored, according to high school gossip, a double 200 on the SAT. I can’t explain it. He seemed brighter than his scores. He went on to work as an engineer at Westinghouse.
” . . . [S]educe, intimidate, or alter everything in its orbit.” Yep. The university seems to occupy the space once held by the Church, the Party, the Emperor. Beyond criticism, beyond consequences.