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I will never allow my UGA friends to forget this.
The six-week civil trial captured national headlines, and the seamy details of how a college football powerhouse recruited functionally illiterate athletes led to the resignation of longtime university president Fred Davison.
UGA attorney Hale Almand, in his opening remarks to the jury, set an unfortunate tone: “We may not make a university student out of him, but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbage man when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Secretly taped at a faculty meeting, then-remedial studies boss Leroy Ervin told his staff: “I know for a fact that these kids would not be here if it were not for their utility to the institution… . They are used as a kind of raw material in the production of some goods to be sold as whatever product, and they get nothing in return.”
I knew first-hand of two high school teammates who were in the "remedial studies" program. One seldom if ever attended class and the other never graduated high school.
My condolences to the Kemp family.
I will never allow my UGA friends to forget this.
The six-week civil trial captured national headlines, and the seamy details of how a college football powerhouse recruited functionally illiterate athletes led to the resignation of longtime university president Fred Davison.
UGA attorney Hale Almand, in his opening remarks to the jury, set an unfortunate tone: “We may not make a university student out of him, but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbage man when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Secretly taped at a faculty meeting, then-remedial studies boss Leroy Ervin told his staff: “I know for a fact that these kids would not be here if it were not for their utility to the institution… . They are used as a kind of raw material in the production of some goods to be sold as whatever product, and they get nothing in return.”
I knew first-hand of two high school teammates who were in the "remedial studies" program. One seldom if ever attended class and the other never graduated high school.
My condolences to the Kemp family.
