Ralph Baer comments:
>RPI has attracted a number of very intelligent Hockey players over the
>years--the exploits of Joe Juneau have been recounted on Hockey-L, TSN
>and elsewhere many times.  I also remember that the goalie Terry Jordan
>(RPI '72) won the award for having the highest QPA among all students
>as a freshman.  I better not mention the other end of the spectrum
>except to say that it was standard fair while I was an undergraduate
>(1964-68) for half the team to go on academic probation after the first
>semester.  This seems to have improved, somehow, over the intervening
>years.
 
This has definitely improved as of this past year.  Powers suspended two of
his freshmen, one of them being Brian Richardson (I don't remember the other
off hand), for one game because they had fallen behind in one of their classes.
He seems _very_ dedicated to making sure his players graduate.