[NU Sports] football and brains

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That would be a plus if it kept us out of the Alamo.
John DeGroat
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From: CHerron604 at aol.com
> I read that same article - I wish they had cited a reference on the '20%  
> believe the Sun orbits the Earth'
>  
> Has anyone ever seen a source on that ?  (not that I don't believe  it...)
>  
> On a more puzzling note...would we call it irony if our great win over  
> Minnesota shattered them so totally, that they lost out for the season - giving  
> Michigan needed confidence for this week's game ?  Helping Iowa to 8  wins and 
> Wisconsin to 7 wins ?  Dropping us from the Alamo bowl to the  Insight bowl ?
>  
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/11/2008 7:59:27 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
> MHRJGScott at aol.com writes:
> 
> First of  all I would like to thank all the listers for not getting into   
> politics during this happy time in America, but I would like to comment  on  
> a SI 
> article which talked about "the revenge of the nerds"  eggheads, and other  
> wimp-like braniaks which were having good  season, CATS!!, Duke, Stanford, 
> Rice,  
> Vandy, etc. Just where does it  say that a person with a high IQ can not kick 
>  
> some butt.
> I hope  our new Chicago guy can do what he says and from the NYT:
> 
> "Maybe, just  maybe, the result will be a step away from the  
> anti-intellectualism  that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and 
>  educated  
> leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse —  a  
> White House 
> that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t  get very far  either. 
> We can’t solve our educational challenges when,  according to polls, 
> Americans 
> are approximately as likely to believe in  flying saucers as in evolution, 
> and  when one-fifth of Americans  believe that the sun orbits the  Earth."
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