May 5, 2000

Professor Charges U. of Tennessee With Shortchanging Athletes Academically

By WELCH SUGGS

Linda Bensel-Meyers says she started to cry while looking over a former football player's transcript.

The player, whom she declines to name, had declared his major as engineering early in his career at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where Ms. Bensel-Meyers is a professor of English.

But he "slipped to sports management, and then undeclared," she recounts, "and the student was academically dismissed after his last term of competition. Clearly,

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