Lt. Johnson/Mark Grassl exchange...
 
>>division I athlete deserve any more academic assistance than
>>any other given student...?
 
>Maybe because the athletic department wants to keep them eligible.
>Maybe the athletes miss class due to games.  Maybe the athletes can't go
>to office hours due to practice.  I don't like to begrudge anyone the
>chance to learn something extra through the use of tutors or academic
>assistance.  The point is they are pushed to learn something.
>But you may have a point, is academic assistance available to non-athlets?
>>From experience I would say many students just don't ask often enough for
>help(shyness? embarassment?).
 
I don't know if this means anything, but it seems to me that any 'minority'
group (this includes student-atheletes) have extra help availible to them
viz tutors and discussion groups.  I know for a fact that here at Berkeley
there are special department-organized tutors/groups set up for
1) Student-Atheletes
2) Minority students (which could be anyone not WASP at Berkeley...)
3) Handicapped students
4) Remedial students
There has been some noise here (there always has to be something to
protest at UCB) about this special treatment as reverse discrimination
(for 2-4) or special privelages (1).
 
CMM