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<blockquote data-quote="flounder" data-source="post: 70004" data-attributes="member: 128"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/education/12kemp.html" target="_blank">Jan Kemp Dies at 59; Exposed Fraud in Grades of Players</a> </strong></span></p><p></p><p>Jan Kemp, a former English instructor whose lawsuit against the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_georgia/index.html?inline=nyt-org" target="_blank">University of Georgia</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, her son, Will, told The Associated Press.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.”</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flounder, post: 70004, member: 128"] [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/education/12kemp.html']Jan Kemp Dies at 59; Exposed Fraud in Grades of Players[/URL] [/B][/SIZE] Jan Kemp, a former English instructor whose lawsuit against the [URL='http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_georgia/index.html?inline=nyt-org']University of Georgia[/URL] 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. 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. [/QUOTE]
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