Rec'd with a technical glitch.  --gw
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:21:43 -0500
From: Mary E Choquette <[log in to unmask]>

  I usually do not chime in on such threads, but in this
instance I must.  Does anyone really take U.S. News and World Report
seriously in matters of accreditation or any other realm of academic
consideration by folk or institution?  Is it not just a paragraph in an
institution's glossy?  Secondly, just what is a "strong football program?"
Not all sports are contained within the arena of conferences that play on
kickback, so to speak.  Been watching that recent Harvard grad playing for
the Niks?  His choice.  Traditional sports and other modes of kinesthetic
performance production are all too regionally chauvenistically
categorized.

IMO

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Mary Edsall Choquette, M.L.S., Ph.D.
College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool
University of Maryland, College Park
4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing
College Park, MD 20742
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