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Derrick Z. Jackson Calls It

He’s talking about Northeastern University’s recent decision to drop football.

[Northeastern University’s neighbor, Boston University,] appears to have invested well in its 12 years without football. Not having a Saturday tailgate does not seem to have hurt … its national and global rankings as an academic institution. The athletes in the remaining sports do remarkably well. Its male athletes have a graduation success rate of 89 percent, including 100 percent for its African-American male basketball players. Its female athletes have a 97 percent graduation success rate.

… Northeastern scored a touchdown by dropping football.

Margaret Soltan, November 24, 2009 6:47AM
Posted in: sport

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One Response to “Derrick Z. Jackson Calls It”

  1. superdestroyer Says:

    Princeton Review has Boston University as being 60% female. I wonder how eliminating football will helping with that number.

    Also, I never believe what universities claim about graduation rates. Unless someone compares year to year rosters, there is no way of knowing what the real graduation rates are.

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