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Bartlett, Carol. "Seeing: Gender and Literacy." Text Quarterly 7.1 (1994): 1,4. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This too is an article that relates gender roles to literacy. It talks about the different learning behaviors relating to male and females. It states that men enroll in school in order to achieve something, while women enrol for the sake of desire for learning. Men are said to pick up at task and master it until picking up a new one while women work with more than one task at the same time. Men and women have different learning, writing, and reading techniques from one another.\n\n

Schrotenboer, By Brent. "Athletes Going to College Get 'special' Treatment | The San Diego Union-Tribune." San Diego News, Local, California and National News - SignOnSanDiego.com. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. . This articles talks about how some students are accepted at schools even though their grades don't meet the regular admission standards. They call these students "special admits" which include athletes. 70% of scholarship athletes at UCLA were accepted as special admits. On the other hand, only 3% of the regular student body was accepted as special admits. The article stresses the point that the athletic department should not be included in the admissions process.

Dunn, Debra, Lori W. Turner, and George Denny. "Nutrition Knowledge and Attitudes of College Athletes." Sport Journal 10.4 (2007): 45-52. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article is about research that studied the nutritional knowledge of college athletes. Despite popular belief that college athletes are well aware of nutrition, this research indicates that the nutritional knowledge of college athletes is minimal. The research was conducted on student athletes at Southern university. The student athletes were tested on of current dietary recommendations, sources of nutrients, healthy food choices, and the relationship between diet and disease processes. The research showed that majority of athletes at Southern university had healthy attitudes about eating behaviors, however had little knowledge.