Jan Kemp, the professor whose criticism of the University of Georgia’s lax academic standards for athletes led to reforms not only at her employer but throughout the NCAA, has died at the age of 59. After complaining that UGA allowed athletes who had failed remedial classes to remain not only enrolled but active in varsity sports, Kemp was fired in 1982.
She sued the university, and was awarded $2.57 million (later reduced to $1.08 million). Not only was she reinstated, but all NCAA member institutions now require varsity athletes to meet standards related to grade-point averages, test scores, and the types of courses taken in high school.
Fortunately Fear Itself added “PGA golfer” to his nomination of John Daly, else we would need to resolve how to handle having more than one celebrity with the same name. My view - assume the nomination is for the more famous one, albeit there will be some circumstances where that is not clear.
Are we sure they are not one in the same? I hear that between tournaments and binges, John Daly was a multi-talented over-achiever. And no one ever saw them in the same room…
Amateurs, I have had the same list since 2004. I have had 2 people die since I started playing, Reagan in 2004, worth a whole 7 points, and Gerald Ford, who was on my alternate list for 2007 and died before the year started. I don’t know if I am going to be able to outlive my list.:eek:
Interesting twist on this rule: what if a celebrity is a secret Doper and that fact came out after his/her death? Maybe Diogenes the Cynic is really Dick Cheney for example. Would we have to negate all the Cheney points?
And would the method of his passing have an effect on this? I mean, being DtC or not, I could totally get behind a rule which said that if Cheney cacked in some kind of particularly ironic or spectacular manner, he’s worth double points. (I do think that if Cheney dies and it turns out that not only was he a Doper, but he had a Death Pool List, he should be completely stripped of any points he’d won up until the time of his death, and those points awarded to the Dopers who had the least.)
Another thought, what if, say, Tom Cruise, was a secret Doper, knew he had a terminal illness, and put himself on his own Death Pool List? Should he get the points for himself?