Couple of bits of information

Heck man, even their swim team cheated last season. It was all over the news

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Jan Kemp, a former English instructor whose lawsuit against the University of Georgia in the 1980s drew national attention to preferential treatment of college athletes unable to meet academic standards, died on Dec. 4 in Athens, Ga. She was 59.

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Dr. Jan Kemp won a lawsuit against the University of Georgia.
The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, her son, Will, told The Associated Press.

While coordinator of Georgia’s remedial English program, Dr. Kemp was among several faculty members who had complained that officials at Georgia intervened in the fall of 1981 to enable nine football players to pass a remedial English course in which they had received failing grades. The athletes remained eligible to play for Georgia against Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day 1982.

Dr. Kemp was demoted in 1982 and dismissed the next year. She filed suit, maintaining that she had been ousted because of her complaints, a violation of her constitutional right to free speech.

In Atlanta Federal Court in January 1986, university officials defended their actions concerning the football players, saying the athletes had been admitted to the regular curriculum because they were making progress in their studies. Dr. Kemp, they said, was dismissed for disruptive conduct and for failure to conduct adequate scholarly research.

O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”

The jury found that Dr. Kemp had been dismissed illegally and awarded her more than $2.5 million (later reduced to $1.08 million) for lost wages, mental anguish and punitive damages. She was later reinstated.

The university’s president, Dr. Fred C. Davison, announced his resignation in March 1986. The board of regents of the University System of Georgia issued a report in April implicating Dr. Davison and the Georgia athletic department, headed by Vince Dooley, who was also the football coach, in a pattern of academic abuse in the admission and advancement of student-athletes over the previous four years. Both Dr. Davison and Mr. Dooley denied improper conduct, but Georgia tightened academic standards for its athletes.

Dr. Kemp, a native of Griffin, Ga., received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a doctorate in English education from Georgia, where she began teaching in 1978. She retired from her second stint as a faculty member in 1990.

In addition to her son, she is survived by her daughter, Margie Kemp.

Although Dr. Kemp was ultimately vindicated, she said she suffered emotional turmoil from the dispute and twice attempted suicide in 1982.

Notwithstanding her travails, she made her point.

“All over the country, athletes are used to produce revenue,” she told The New York Times a month after the trial. “I’ve seen what happens when the lights dim and the crowd fades. They’re left with nothing. I want that stopped.”

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If you share the same DNA with all the neighborhood, including the household pets, you will likely go to UGA.

dawgs are so irrelevant.

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Yes, Tech players and students have a strong history of cheating and being scumbags.

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Sorry, I’m really the “wanna-be fratboy.” I got turned down by all the cool frats at UGA so now I hate them. They picked on me

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University student and defensive end Montez Robinson was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol early Monday morning as police investigated a report of criminal damage to a vehicle.

According to the University Police report:

A Parking Services attendant told police she heard the sound of breaking glass at the East Campus parking deck, then found a vehicle with both rear tail lights broken.

Police found the owner of the vehicle, University student Armita Didehvar, sitting outside Vandiver Hall talking with Robinson.

Robinson, 19, smelled of alcohol, so police placed him under arrest.

As he was arrested, “Robinson became very agitated” and “started to yell and scream.”

On Oct. 20, University Police reported Didehvar as the victim of a misdemeanor battery and simple assault.

The name of the suspect was redacted from the police report, however several witnesses to the incident claimed the suspect was a football player, and one identified the alleged assailant as Robinson.

“We saw Montez,” University student and Vandiver Hall resident Mileva Savich told The Red & Black Tuesday.

“Then we saw a girl and we heard her scream. We saw him pick her up and basically throw her against a trash can.”

Savich said she and her roommates ran outside to try to break up the incident, but the alleged assailant and Didehvar were separated when they arrived.

“He was going off and cussing,” she said. “He got her really good.”

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson was unable to identify the suspect because no formal charges were made.

He said police do not identify suspects awaiting formal charges to avoid the possibility of spreading false accusations.

“She did not want to press charges,” he said. “Neither were very cooperative.”

Williamson said in certain similar cases, police are able to make arrests under family violence laws. This incident did not meet the requirements, so no arrest was made.

Associate Athletic Director Claude Felton was unable to be reached for comment Wednesday.

Robinson and Didehvar both refused to comment.

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UGA player arrested, suspended indefinitely
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Demarius Jackson said he was knocked unconscious and suffered serious injury to the bone around his eye.
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By Joe Johnson | joe.johnson@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, 2008

A University of Georgia football player was booked into the Clarke County Jail this morning on a felony charge stemming from a fight last weekend that seriously injured another UGA student.

Michael Lemon, 20, a redshirt sophomore defensive end, surrendered less than a day after Athens-Clarke police took out warrants charging him with misdemeanor battery and felony aggravated battery.

Lemon has been suspended from the team indefinitely, according to the UGA Athletic Association.

Police allege Lemon beat Demarius Jackson, a 20-year-old political science and international affairs major, during a cookout Saturday night at an Athens apartment complex.

Lemon, who allegedly had been drinking liquor, accused Jackson of talking to his girlfriend before he knocked Jackson to the ground with a single punch, police said.

Lemon, who is 6-foot-4 and 274 pounds, continued to pummel the much smaller student until someone pulled him off, according to police.

Jackson was knocked unconscious and suffered a concussion and “blowout fracture,” a serious injury to the bone around the eye that might require surgery, Jackson said late Wednesday afternoon, soon after an Athens-Clarke County Magistrate Court judge signed warrants for Lemon’s arrest.

A conviction on an aggravated battery charge is punishable by one to 20 years in prison.

Lemon is the third Georgia football player arrested within three days, and at least the seventh to be arrested this offseason.

Sophomore offensive linemen Justin Anderson and Trinton Sturdivant were booked into the county jail Monday night, after UGA police charged them with battery.

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The men allegedly touched a pregnant woman’s stomach and made lewd comments as they followed her at the East Campus Village dormitory Saturday night, police said.

Athens attorney Edward Tolley, attorney for the UGA Athletic Association, said the players denied the charge.

“I’m certainly disappointed in a few of our players who have made poor decisions during the off season,” football coach Mark Richt said in a press release issued by the university. “It is of great concern and we take it very seriously. They will be dealt with accordingly and will pay a price. Each one will be disciplined based on the severity of their actions,” he said.

Published on OnlineAthens.com on 070308

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I love it! I love it! I love it!!! Trade School fans reduced to copy and paste jobs of old stories!!!

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Still hurts, doesn’t it? hahahahahahahaahhahahahhhahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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24-30, not really. From number 13 in the nation to not even ranked. At least Bobby Bowden thinks uga is good.

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Bill,

Were you at Historic Mark Richt Field a couple of Saturdays ago to witness the beatdown?

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30-24=6. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MAN!!!!!!!

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narms,
What a low class comment…….my special ed son has more class in his little finger than you have in your whole body.You ought to spend some time with these kids before making such an assinine comment.

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Wow, for being such an “intelligent” group of people, you Tech fans sure sound like a bunch of friggin idiots.

I find it hilarious when Tech fans use the “academic” excuse as to why UGA is your daddy. “Well, at least our athletes are smarter than yours!”

Uhhh, actually for the most part, they are not. At most universities, the athetes do NOT represent the student population. Don’t believe me?? Go listen to a Josh Nesbitt or Jonathen Dwyer interview. Apparently ebonics is replacing English courses in most Georgia high schools these days. At least UGA fans can admit it.

Tech fans, nobody cares how smart you think you are. When you use academics as an excuse as to why your teams always SUCK, you just make yourselves look like the morons that you truly are.

What’s even more funny is that posters like “jacketnation” make my point even better than I ever could.

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Wow, you Tech fans are slooooow. One more time.

Once again the SEC proved that the ACC is the most OVERHYPED, OVERRATED conference in the HISTORY of college football.

Butterfinger – the official candy bar of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Caleb King just scored again!!!!

30 – 24 glad it STILL hurts so bad.

There’s a new sheriff in town, and he got outcoached by Willie Martinez(?), a lesson in running the ball form Mike Bobo(??), and his A$$ kicked at home by Mark Richt and YOUR University of Georgia Bulldogs!!!

By the way, in case you forgot, Waushaun and Caleb RUN THIS STATE!!!

60-39-15 that must SUCK!!!

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lets see….should we open the record books?

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oh yeah I remember…… the dates are…..

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god… that has to hurt…..

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The UGA banter is always so entertaining. I guess they forgot all the early season talk about how GT would lose to some nobody that they should have easily walked over. Of course when you are that team….

Kudos to the pups for getting that one right.

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bugs, you crack me up! those tech fans are definitely losers! And YES, UGA are the ACC champions!

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YELLLOW TICKS == SHREVEPORT BUGS HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHA UGA DAWGS WILL SWAT THEM FLATAS WELL. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

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morning bugland…30 to 24 ..up early this morning…….almost forgot the score…course i know paul johnson came rember….352 more days till next year’s game ….lmfao

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Bill,

Did I witness our 5 losses that Yech had nothing to do with? Yes I did. It has to suck knowing UK could beat us yet your overrated Jackets couldn’t, ehh chief?

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Jimmy,

Ever notice how Tech fans cry about academics when it comes to football, yet somehow they’re magically able to land top prospects in basketball (though usually one and done) and never seem to mention academics in that sport?

The fact is, none of the top football players want to play in their high school stadium. That’s the reality they can’t admit too.

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My goodness, stop being a liberal PC cop already and let us talk like men. What’s wrong with mentioning special ed? Your boys have been insulting UGA players for years with these SAME comments, but when someone points out the fact that without special ed prep courses in high school, 90% of Tech’s football players wouldn’t have been allowed in, you get your man thongs in a wad. Love the Tech liberal hypocrisy!!

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