Chansky’s Notebook: Duke, You Could Be Next!
Posted Dec 5, 2017
Orin Starn, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke, wrote last Friday that Duke varsity athletes miss “thousands” of classes each year while traveling to and from games with their respective teams. He says their absences are registered under the category of short term illness, and that most of the athletes can do no more than barely pass the classes they miss. Get on it, Dan Kane.
(Chapelboro.com)
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