"No university can exempt itself from playing a part in expanding the pool of talent from which students are drawn," Mr Milburn said.
Casey Davis told the Guardian last week that state legislators are ready to support a bill that would exempt county clerks from playing a role in marriages, if they cite a sincerely held belief.
Gareth Roberts, editor of Liverpool fanzine Well Red, has defended the decision to exempt the Reds from playing on 15 April, meaning Chelsea must play their semi-final on the Sunday, just three days before they take on Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final.
Tom Hanks once appeared exempt from aging — Sally Field, who played his love interest in "Punchline" (1988) was cast as his mother in "Forrest Gump" (1994) — but now, at 51, he is plausibly playing congressmen ("Charlie Wilson's War") and university professors ("The Da Vinci Code").
The Cowboys won easily because they were exempt from the weirdness; they played on Saturday night, Any Given Sunday Eve.
But that's not the most glaring exception it makes for its biggest nations, since one lucky second-place team is exempted from the ignominy of playing another two games before reaching the competition.
In September, Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (a joint venture of the two companies) was fined, along with several other companies, for fixing the prices of optical disc drives (one of the companies was exempted from the fine for playing the role of whistleblower, but its identity was kept confidential).
Suffice it to say that the stadium Sherman plays in is certainly not exempt from this exorbitance either.
Any player who has played two full seasons or less is exempt from the expansion draft.
America's favourite summer sport is played by a 30-team cartel that is specifically exempt from antitrust laws.
