Set 3 world records, ended up going to the Olympics and winning 4 gold medals
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So after he came back from the Olympics and his athletic career ended in disgrace, they held it against him and wouldn't let him graduate
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He came back again in 1940 throwing himself on the board's mercy bc he couldn't pursue teaching/coaching w/o a teaching degree
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And they said no bc it would undermine OSU's strong academic standards to show anyone "special treatment"
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After they'd been in headline news in 1936 as the alma mater of the American gold medalist who showed up Hitler
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That's just it, they withheld his diploma so OSU technically never was Jesse Owens' alma mater, whatever tour guides said
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They fixed that in 1972 by giving him an honorary doctorate, long after such a thing would've been useful to him
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Now they've got a statue of him and an athletic center named after him and all this shit
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When they were making the movie Race, Owens' daughter talked about attending OSU bc her dad went there
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And how one of her profs apparently had his first-day-of-class funny story be how he taught Jesse Owens and what a bad student Owens was
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And said that it pissed her off so much hearing that shit she dropped the class
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Re: endorsements, you know one of the Germans who got famous for being welcoming and accepting of Owens unlike the Nazis? Adolf Dassler
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