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Title: A heartbreaking and frustrating story about a Memphis athlete Post by: Clockwork Orange on June 08, 2012, 03:03:04 EDT I read the print version this morning at work, and DJ at the VS posted the link (and the link has much more info, including some papers written by Dasmine and a graphical version of his transcript).
If you are interested in education, in college sports, or in the intersection of the two, you need to read this article. I am simultaneously sympathetic to a kid that obviously has a good heart and furious at the systems and structures that allowed him to get through high school and be one course away from a college degree. If you don't think some of this occurs at UT . . . or any school with D-I sports programs . . . you're mistaken. It's just a matter of how far it goes. The Education of Dasmine Cathey (http://chronicle.com/article/The-Education-of-Dasmine/132065/) Title: Re: A heartbreaking and frustrating story about a Memphis athlete Post by: 101stDad on June 08, 2012, 04:22:39 EDT It just baffles me how student/athletes (alleged, anyway) get in to major universities in the first place. That's really a sad story.
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