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    I think they deserved probation, vacating wins, a fine, and some increased training and supervision of tutors if that hasn’t already occurred. I think the severity of the sanctions is pretty insane for a situation where there was no finding of institutional wrongdoing or of wrongdoing by any person of authority. Particularly after the complete non-punishment of UNC. I also think the NCAA is setting a terrible precedent by declaring that circling the wagons and deny, deny, deny is more fruitful for schools than self-reporting and cooperation. The lesson from these sanctions vs. the treatment of UNC for any school who finds itself in this situation is to immediately task the tutor to also cheat for some non-athletes, cover everything up, and when caught, deny everything and refuse to cooperate.
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    When you blow the whistle on yourself it’s just called confessing.
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    She’s apparently been periodically offering to sell her story ever since she initially went public because she still owes Mizzou $3k and they won’t release her transcript.
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    And? Punishments must be based on the actual findings. Not what you suspect might have happened but found no evidence of. And again, the NCAA found that the school demonstrated “exemplary cooperation.”
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    It was the NCAA’s opinion that she was a rogue actor, not Connelly’s. From the NCAA findings:
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    That’s becaude returning production is only one component of S&P+ projections. Recruiting rankings and the prior year’s S&P+ rating are also factored in.
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    The NCAA
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    Did you miss the part about her being a rogue actor? I don’t believe there was any finding that anyone in a position of authority directed, encouraged, or even knew what the tutor was doing. But the narrative of this being solely on one person is also bs spin by the Mizzou AD. It’s not just on the tutor, it’s on the student-athletes who allowed her to do their coursework as well.
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    In a vacuum I’m not sure that’s an unfair punishment but it’s a fucking insane punishment in light of the non-punishment of UNC.
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    Getting arrested while free on bond will certainly up it. It also appears to be four separate bonds, with each under 1.4m or so (which is still insane unless maybe he's worth millions of dollars).
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    There was a single kid in my class of 600 who would have been 15 in 8th grade at this point in the year. So yeah, it's not impossible, but it's definitely uncommon.
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    English motherfucker, do you speak it? Driver’s license /= voter registration
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    Right, the issue is that the lege is not longer in session when the veto occurs. It’s never been texted but some even argue the veto can only be overridden in the same session in which it originated, meaning the lege couldn’t override even when they come back. The only real solution that would be at all workable would be a sort of peremptory veto override, whereby bills passed by 2/3 or both the House and Senate go into law without the Governor’s signature.
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    I don’t really know what the fix is but it’s absurd that the Governor can veto a bill after the session has ended and the legislature is then barred from overriding that veto for two years.
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    Roughly 50k Texas residents become naturalized citizens each year. Since 1996, that'd be over one million people. So that would be fewer than 10% of those who got an ID or driver's license prior to naturalizing and who then registered to vote and/or voted after becoming a citizen.
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    The acting and the chemistry between Mortensen and Ali is enough to make it watchable but the story is just formulaic “white person actually gets to know a black person and learns racism is bad” schlock.
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    That sucks. She seemed like a great woman with a promising life and career ahead.
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    I would vote for it over every nominee other than A Star is Born.
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    Same. It was a complete slog to get through.
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    I’m not sure if it’s a good idea or not but I think the idea is incentives for improving scores, not for high scores. So a teacher in Eanes isn’t likely to get incentives because the students are coming in with good scores.
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    And the other 5% got struck. That we even allow the state to use peremptory strikes in jury selection is perverse.
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    There’s a burger place/bar by the gondola that was good when we tried it last year. California Burger or something like that.
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    What have today's elders done exactly that merits respect?
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    Not for sexual assault (or manslaughter/murder)
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    Heavenly is super convenient but Kirkwood is the best skiing in the area

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