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Year in Sports: For some athletes, class an afterthought

Abstract:
He slinked off his overstuffed backpack and clunked it down in the chair next to him.

He thought he'd traded in the bookbag, at least the kind brimming with notebooks and study guides and paper outlines and grading rubrics and syllabi and pens and highlighters....

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posted 4/22/08 @ 8:09 AM EST

Recently it appears that the athletic department is de-emphasizing academic performance. Since January, there has not been a weekly "Scholar Athlete of the Week" on the athletics page. Instead, there is this superficial poll of athletes on their "favorites" that has seemed to become a fixture. I feel this makes a disappointing statement about where Syracuse Athletics is headed.

Asante made the right decision. It is unfortunate that so many other athletes see Universities as a mere stepping stone to the pros. For those of us who intimately know athletes that participate in Olympic sports, their focus is the combination of academics and athletics. THIS is the mission of the NCAA, and should be re-captured by Division 1 University athletics as well.

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posted 4/22/08 @ 11:16 PM EST

http://suathletics.com/News/Lacrosse/mLacrosse/2008/4/21/moulton_scholarathlete.asp?path=mlacrosse

http://suathletics.com/news/softball/2008/4/21/gibbs_scholarathlete.asp?path=softball?path=

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