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Jan 08th
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| Sunday, 13 January 2008 | |
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — University of Cincinnati president Nancy Zimpher has hired a football coach, men's basketball coach and women's basketball coach in the past 16 months. What she wanted in candidates couldn't have been clearer. "I think the athletic director knew not even to bring the pool to me until it was representative," Zimpher said Friday during a discussion on diversity at the NCAA convention ... Dene Rivera-Barracato, assistant athletic director at Adelphi, was the only Hispanic on her team. Now she often has athletes stopping by her office to have someone to speak Spanish with, even if her grasp of the language isn't as strong as she'd like. READ MORE: http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801120399               |
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