Charlie Masenas writes: >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." Maybe Ted should have taken a look at RPI and Vermont's media guides. The 1992-93 RPI guide (don't have 93-94, but most of the team is the same) shows 28 players. 17 were management majors, 9 were in engineering/computer science/biology, and 2 were undecided. So most of the RPI team is already in the Management program, although there are more engineers/scientists today than there were in 1985-86 when only one player was in that type of program. Either way, the Mgmt major at RPI is certainly not an easy one, as I found out from my roommates that year. The 1993-94 Vermont guide shows 27 players. 8 are business/management majors, 3 are undecided/arts & sciences (that's how it was listed), and 0 are in engineering/computer science/biology/mathematics/physics/etc. The other 16 have majors varying from English and History to Physical Education, Recreation Management, and Nutritional Sciences. I'm certainly not raising any eyebrows about those majors, but I think if Ted considers the RPI Mgmt degree to be for "lower kids", he would have a hard time arguing that Vermont does not have something equivalent. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93 <<<<< Color Voice of the (16-17-2) Merrimack Warriors WCCM 800 AM >>>>>