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This has been an issue for not only the athletic department but also the B-school, Meadows School of Arts and others.

This will help, a little.

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It's an interesting response to the problem. Too bad they couldn't kill two birds with one stone by just adding the requisite majors to the cirriculum--that way you solve the transfer problem, as well as expanding your recruiting pool to include those interested in majors not currently offerred by SMU.

I have brought that up many times. An issue with adding majors is also adding Prof's to teach, new department chairs and the like.

I think with some creative minds we have the departments for Physical Education and Sports Management currently on staff.

I would like to think that the majors we would be adding would not require a lot of extensivly trained and educated new professors. I would bet the ones that I would want added could even be taught by me if necessary. Isn't that former Georgia Basketball coach available to teach a class or two?

I have always said, that aside from the transfer issues, I don't have a real problem with the curriculum. Are any of the A&M players that interested in Agricultural Sciences or whatnot? That used to be a big major with the football players down there.

My sister went to A&M and floral arrangement was a popular class among athletes.

I personally am glad that SMU does not have many cake classes like this. I know some exist, but overall I am glad that we don't facilitate.

Also, at UNT one popular one is underwater basket weaving.

lugus830 wrote:My sister went to A&M and floral arrangement was a popular class among athletes.

I personally am glad that SMU does not have many cake classes like this. I know some exist, but overall I am glad that we don't facilitate.

Also, at UNT one popular one is underwater basket weaving.

I think they dropped that after a few drownings.

lugus830 wrote:My sister went to A&M and floral arrangement was a popular class among athletes.

I personally am glad that SMU does not have many cake classes like this. I know some exist, but overall I am glad that we don't facilitate.

Don't kid yourself. I'm a non-athlete, but when I started up in the engineering school back when, Jack Harkey referred to one class I could choose as an elective as "advanced hand clapping"--and told me all the football players were in it.

I myself never stooped to such levels, opting for "Survey of Dance" as my elective instead. It was clearly a more advanced class, as I only saw basketball players in that one.

I think we are on the verge of gettting this thread deleted for discrimination against athletes. I had a female friend when I was at SMU and while at her apartment she was called by a Prof and told about a class he had that did not show in the registration manual. He told her to call the office the next morning and asked to be put into the class. He explained to her that she need not attend and would receive an A as she had in his other classes she had taken in the past and would take in the future. She was one of many that worked the same arrangement with him. The strange thing was, he was a dirty, very old man, that got only the personal satisfaction of pleasing the pretty young things. He told them they never had to attend any of his classes and they would be given A's. So it is not just the athletes that get the preferential treatment. Sad to say I was not good enough to get the "athlete" special treatment, and my legs were not quite right for the other.

I certainly enjoyed my Athletics' elective where seriously I caught the break of a lifetime when I was chosen as Shannon Baker's Bowling Partner. Remember Shannon Baker who was maybe the first world famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader with her Platinum Hair and ample....assets which appeared on posters across the world.? Never missed a CLASS!

Stallion wrote:I certainly enjoyed my Athletics' elective where seriously I caught the break of a lifetime when I was chosen as Shannon Baker's Bowling Partner. Remember Shannon Baker who was maybe the first world famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader with her Platinum Hair and ample....assets which appeared on posters across the world.? Never missed a CLASS!

Cool...but did you ever actually learn to bowl?... never mind, I doubt that was the objective anyway.

I remember one semester I followed the football players around at registration (I got one of the really lowest numbers that year). I got into a Humanities Class where the professor sad to say had a stroke a year before, he could hardly speak and gave out A's to everyone. Unfortunately mid semester he had another stroke and the head of the English department took over the class. Needless to say the football players dropped it like a rock. I stayed in the class, got an A and then she told me about a special by invitation only seminar class for humanities. It was easier than any class at SMU. I also went to a general business class with the football players and the professor spent half of the semester teaching high school algebra 1. So, there were some gems in the rough even at SMU.

Four words: "History of Comedic Film"

Three hour course; the first class was "Plains, Trains and Automobiles."

or the "music appreciation classes" and some Communication classes...was it called "mass media" - it was very easy.