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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 893581, member: 3850"] We all have heard about Stanford's achievement in athletics and academics...but the truth came out... [B]"In a blockbuster report from the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, it was revealed that an “Easy Class List” existed for Stanford athletes, but it was “discontinued” last week after pesky reporters began asking questions. “(Stanford) accommodates athletes in the manner that they accommodate students with disabilities,” said Donald Barr, who teaches a Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health course, which was highlighted by resource center advisers." A drama class in "Beginning Improvising" and another in "Social Dances of North America III" were among dozens of classes on a closely guarded quarterly list distributed only to Stanford athletes to help them choose courses. The classes on the list were "always chock-full of athletes and very easy A's," added Kira Maker, a women's soccer player who used the list her freshman year. Titled "courses of interest," the list was distributed by the Athletic Academic Resource Center. Advisers in other departments at the university said they were unaware such a list existed.[/B] Even Stanford gave up on the scholar athlete and did what others do...set up crip courses, easy grades to keep up the GPA.... [/QUOTE]