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From: stern@steinmetz.UUCP (Harold A. Stern)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intelligence)
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 16:00:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 16:00:55 1985
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> As I remember it, in my high school years, the intelligent nerdy types
> were ridiculed just as much as the dumb jocks. Only no one dared to 
> make fun of the football teams starting defensive tackle to his face.
> The most respected people were the well rounded ones who were athletically
> proficient as well as moderately intelligent.
> -- 

I don't know where you went to high school, but where I came from (long
island) the dumb jock weren't ridiculed, they were admired - anybody
out there ever had a pep rally before the big math league competition?
In fact, our senior class president was a defensive tackle (or something
like that). 

-harold stern
 stern@bsvax.decnet@ge-crd
 schenectady, ny 12308       <-- don't ask me; I don't know where the 
 				 hell schenectady is either.