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<blockquote data-quote="gthxxxx" data-source="post: 575431" data-attributes="member: 4310"><p>Those qualities exist on a spectrum, but to the gist of your question, yes, many inside and outside of GT live by a higher standard of that philosophy than what some posters here suggest otherwise. Remember, this is an online forum and does not represent an unbiased sample of the GT population.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I've heard something similar multiple times from GT faculty (usually implicitly) in the 2000s via newsletters, emails, and talks to justify continued funding, support, and preferential treatment of the athletic department (e.g. lower academic admission standard, mandatory earmarked fee, dedicated facilities, etc). Maybe that should be revisited as the college football industry continues to separate college from football.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is probably why the powder keg hasn't exploded yet. It does make it distasteful in regards to the alleged verbal promises of more. Although the cynic in me does note that's a pretty important lesson to prepare for the "real world".</p><p></p><p></p><p>I do disagree with any of the preferential treatment towards student athletes, but I disagree even more towards the continued lowering of the "student" while raising the "athlete". In <strong>this</strong> aspect, I admire the priorities held by Caltech and MIT more than GT and VT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gthxxxx, post: 575431, member: 4310"] Those qualities exist on a spectrum, but to the gist of your question, yes, many inside and outside of GT live by a higher standard of that philosophy than what some posters here suggest otherwise. Remember, this is an online forum and does not represent an unbiased sample of the GT population. I've heard something similar multiple times from GT faculty (usually implicitly) in the 2000s via newsletters, emails, and talks to justify continued funding, support, and preferential treatment of the athletic department (e.g. lower academic admission standard, mandatory earmarked fee, dedicated facilities, etc). Maybe that should be revisited as the college football industry continues to separate college from football. This is probably why the powder keg hasn't exploded yet. It does make it distasteful in regards to the alleged verbal promises of more. Although the cynic in me does note that's a pretty important lesson to prepare for the "real world". I do disagree with any of the preferential treatment towards student athletes, but I disagree even more towards the continued lowering of the "student" while raising the "athlete". In [B]this[/B] aspect, I admire the priorities held by Caltech and MIT more than GT and VT. [/QUOTE]
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