A quote from today's Burlington Free Press sports writer Ted Ryan- "Although RPI is a noted engineering school, it also has a management school where the school could place more hockey players if it did not have to deal with the academic index. Gilligan (UVM's hockey coach) said the absence of an academic index would not be beneficial to UVM 'because I don't think kids would be successful academically if we took lower kids.' UVM does not have an equivalent program of RPI's management course." I've taken courses at both UVM and RPI, seen *lots* of hockey at UVM and RPI (once held season tickets at both schools for the same season) and can distinguish between Ryan's writing and fact. Ryan habitually elevates UVM, berates the competition (especially HE), and detracts from a very respectable program. Too bad. Charlie Masenas