College athletics deliver many off-field benefits

Excerpt of letter to the editor by Wayne Block, MCC SID: "My school, Mesa Community College, and, I am sure, Phoenix College and all junior colleges in Arizona have dozens of athletes who were in the top 10 percent of their high-school class, National Honor Society members and honor-roll members. In fact, one recent football player is now at Cornell, a school not likely to accept the academic failures that the letter writer believes enroll at junior colleges." 

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Arizona Republic
Publication Date: 
Sunday, September 7, 2014