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Last month the Illinois Wesleyan basketball team went to the Division III Final Four. The Titans were a good, positive story. Yet there was no mention of them in the Tribune.
Then I noticed the Ronnie Fields story. Fields, who hasn’t been able to reach the required ACT score to get into a major university, is Illinois’ Mr. Basketball.
But at a time when the educational institutions are getting hammered because youngsters are not earning a good education, Ronnie Fields is heralded as an example. By stark contrast, incoming freshmen at Illinois Wesleyan have a mean average ACT score of 27.
Somehow, the important things are being missed.
