A Jock's Collected Prose

April, 1987

As chancellor of this university, I have long been in favor of cleaning up the image of collegiate athletics, and I therefore wanted to be absolutely certain that we had nothing but student athletes on our basketball squad before we sent the kids off to compete for the $800,000,000 that goes to the winner of the Final Four.That was why I asked each member of our team to fill out a questionnaire. I wanted to be sure they were making satisfactory progress toward their degrees.I'm happy to report t...