-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT MARCH 18 2000 19:20:01 ET XXXXX PAPER DELVES INTO GORE'S GRADES AT HARVARD The WASHINGTON POST has obtained Al Gore's grades from Harvard University which he has previously refused to release -- and the picture drawn is that of a privileged slacker. The POST unloads Sunday on its front page. Despite an impressive 1355 SAT score (625 verbal, 730 math), Al Gore hit trouble spots at Harvard, especially in one semester of his sophomore year when he received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses and one B-minus, reports presidential historian David Maraniss and POSTIE Ellen Nakashima. "That was the year Gore's classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana." Gore placed in the lower fifth of his Harvard class for both his freshman and sophomore years. "For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, despite his outstanding score on the math portion of the SAT. As was the case with many of his classmates, his high school math grades had dropped from A's to C's as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year." In 1961 and 1964 Gore took IQ tests, scoring well -- 133 and 134, respectively At St. Albans, the prestigious prep school in Washington, D.C., Gore was a mostly B and C student. Says John Davis, a retired teacher and assistant headmaster at St. Albans: "You have here a boy who shows a lot of potential. He was as a rule a hard worker, but he wasn't really interested in certain things, and when he wasn't so interested he tried faithfully to do what he was supposed to, though not necessarily very well." Davis, in fact, wrote Gore's recommendation to Harvard: "What they wanted was competent academic performance plus future potential. Plus they were very impressed by the fact that he was a political son. Colleges like Harvard, Princeton and Yale are just as excited to get important sons as top academic scholars." The paper points out that Gore's academic trajectory was not unlike the underachieving prepster George W. Bush, who also squeaked through Ivy League as the son of an important politician. But Maraniss and Nakashima point out that at Harvard "Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale." Gore refused comment on the revelations. Developing... ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed by Matt Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm Bard <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
