What is going on down on the plains?

Auburn has potential for a really good season, and in this off season we have had two drunk driving incidents to deal with, and now education allegations. Let me start by saying that I hope they do a full investigation and find out if there is any foul play or wrong doing when it comes to preferential treatment, this should not be a part of academia.

Here is the catch though, this is done with tons of classes, and not just for athletes as the article states, but the focus is strictly on the football program...Why you ask??? Because it sells papers. Independent studies run ramped throughout all the schools, and most of them are pretty valid. I am speaking from personal experience on this. I would not have graduated on time if it were not for a professor helping me out and allowing me to do an independent study, and the fact was I learned more with the assignments I had to do for him, then most likely I would have sitting though powerpoint education that overruns our colleges today.

Favoritism does not just go for athletes, I took a history class, taught by an extreme left wing professor, and any student that spoke a more conservative answer to his questions were picked apart by him in the class. I took a programming class, I helped a class mate get her program working that only met the basics when he said extra credit would be given for added functionality, and the girl made a better grade than me.

So unless you are dealing with math or multiple choice, grading and teaching, especially at the college level is subjective, all in the professors hands...that was the scary part of college for me...the power each of your professors had.

I am not trying to justify any wrong doing, but lets at least get a reality check about the nature of college academics throughout the country, and not act like it does not happen across the board, to all students, athletes or not. I hope for Auburn sake this ends up being a lot of fluff and a newspaper trying to sell ads because a stupid southern school showed up on the academic radar a few months back with its high academic score, but if it doesn't there should be action taken, I just think people should take a step back and look at the entire situation.