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Racism Continued from page 1 tic contracts while still on university relationships. UI Black Student Union President James Lee said the allegations concerning the exploitation of black athletes at the UI did not come as a surprise. "I agree with that (statement), and not only that, but it goes nationwide," he said. Hubbard said men's basketball Coach Tom Davis, women's basketball Coach Vivian Stringer and football Coach Hayden Fry and all seem genuinely interested in their athletes' academic progress, but also value successful athletic records. "I think they want their athletes to graduate, but their career goal is much more oriented to having winning programs," Hubbard said. Both academics and athletics compete for a student-athlete's time, which means some will suffer if they allow a sport to take precedence over coursework, he said. "I kind of sympathize with them, but as a university professor and administrator, I must cast my lot with getting them to graduate," Hubbard said. As chair of the Opportunity at Iowa minority recruitment and retention program, Hubbard has organized campus programs aimed at bringing the more minority students to the UI. Refuting Edward's comparison of the UI to a slave plantation, Hubbard said university administration, faculty and members of the state Board of Regents have worked to create a positive and supportive environment for all minority students. "The university is very firmly dedicated to creating a positive environment for our students, and to the extent we can control it, we have," he said. UI President Hunter Rawlings said that misconduct of individual athletics has been blown out of proportion and needs to be taken in context with the overall educational mission of the university. When the public and the media and the institutions themselves give college athletics all-out attention and interest and reduce academic mattes to some boring periphery, we are inverting and seriously distorting appropriate values, and worse, are contributing to the very problem we otherwise claim to deplore," said Rawling at Wednesday's state Board of Regents meeting. Several black UI students said comparing the environment of the UI to a plantation was too extreme. "I think the racism on this campus is very subtle," said UI junior Diane Hawkins. "It's not as crazy as the comment in that article."
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Racism Continued from page 1 tic contracts while still on university relationships. UI Black Student Union President James Lee said the allegations concerning the exploitation of black athletes at the UI did not come as a surprise. "I agree with that (statement), and not only that, but it goes nationwide," he said. Hubbard said men's basketball Coach Tom Davis, women's basketball Coach Vivian Stringer and football Coach Hayden Fry and all seem genuinely interested in their athletes' academic progress, but also value successful athletic records. "I think they want their athletes to graduate, but their career goal is much more oriented to having winning programs," Hubbard said. Both academics and athletics compete for a student-athlete's time, which means some will suffer if they allow a sport to take precedence over coursework, he said. "I kind of sympathize with them, but as a university professor and administrator, I must cast my lot with getting them to graduate," Hubbard said. As chair of the Opportunity at Iowa minority recruitment and retention program, Hubbard has organized campus programs aimed at bringing the more minority students to the UI. Refuting Edward's comparison of the UI to a slave plantation, Hubbard said university administration, faculty and members of the state Board of Regents have worked to create a positive and supportive environment for all minority students. "The university is very firmly dedicated to creating a positive environment for our students, and to the extent we can control it, we have," he said. UI President Hunter Rawlings said that misconduct of individual athletics has been blown out of proportion and needs to be taken in context with the overall educational mission of the university. When the public and the media and the institutions themselves give college athletics all-out attention and interest and reduce academic mattes to some boring periphery, we are inverting and seriously distorting appropriate values, and worse, are contributing to the very problem we otherwise claim to deplore," said Rawling at Wednesday's state Board of Regents meeting. Several black UI students said comparing the environment of the UI to a plantation was too extreme. "I think the racism on this campus is very subtle," said UI junior Diane Hawkins. "It's not as crazy as the comment in that article."
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