Dumb Jocks

From the Daily Iowan ("Athletes break stereotype"):

At 71 percent, the rate of UI student-athletes who graduate within six years of entering college eclipses that of non athlete UI students and of average students nationwide, according to a recent report from the NCAA.

Despite stereotypes pegged to college athletes, the UI non athletes' graduation rate - at 66 percent - was five percentage points behind that of university athletes, according to the NCAA's Graduation-Rates Report.

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." - John Kerry