Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site apple.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intelligence) Message-ID: <13429@apple.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:47:09 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.13429 Posted: Mon Aug 5 14:47:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 03:15:37 EDT References: <1030@trwatf.UUCP> <33100024@ISM780.UUCP> <2030@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <542@bentley.UUCP> <223@steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Organization: Advanced Development Group, Apple Computer Lines: 22 Summary: In article <223@steinmetz.UUCP> stern@steinmetz.UUCP (Harold A. Stern) writes: >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? > Our high school math team certainly never had any kind of pep rally, despite that fact that we were consistently the most successful team in the school. One thing that always bothered me was the National Honor Society. In our high school at least, people were chosen for this partly on the basis of activities, with certain activities given certain points. Things like athletics and cheerleading were given more points than things like math team and working on the yearbook. -- Larry Rosenstein Apple Computer UUCP: {nsc, dual, voder, ios, mtxinu}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET