The cost for even the largest athletics department would be negligible, yet history has shown time and again that a new weight room, scoreboard or better offensive coordinator are far more important than the welfare of student-athletes.

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The touch-sensitive screen is visible to all students in the room, said Pauline Carey, technology co-coordinator at the school.

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The workshop coordinator apologized and spent the next several minutes wrangling people into the room while the rest of us got started.

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