Glory, glory to Old Georgia! — fight song.
The University fired Jan Kemp in 1982 for refusing to cheat.
She was a remedial teacher, helping kids who were judged not quite ready for the rigors of Old Georgia. Later, whenever one failed a regular class, she was saddened.
But when her boss ordered her to muscle an English prof into changing three grades for athletes, Jan Kemp refused. She didn’t believe in exceptions for that category.
UGA President Fred Davison fired her. She sued him and the school. Coaches, administrators and local boosters organized an outpouring of abuse upon Ms. Kemp that was up-close and personal.
But she stood her ground. She cleared a million bucks, put Davison on the street, and began a reform in college sports.
Jan Kemp died on Dec. 7. See the AJC obit.
Here’s the biscuit
For SL, the language angle emerged when Jan Kemp’s boss reacted to her refusal to change grades:
“He screamed at me that it would be done. He asked me who did I think was more prominent, me or a prominent basketball player and two prominent track stars.”
Is that a math question? Or vocabulary? We’re still not sure.
