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Some of our American university administrators
suffer from a deadly disease - the disease of "buck passing".
The three great epochs in our American life are: the passing
of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the passing of
the buck.

We readily recognize some alarming and
attendant evils connected with intercollegiate athletics in some
sechérs, especially football. However there is, in my opinion,

a fer better way of meeting the attendant evils than that endorsed
by the National Association of State Universities concerning their
"Standards of Athletic Eligibility" draw up by the committee on
Student Group Life last November the 2lst. Please give your :
attentive ear to the following lines: "The faculty committee on
eligibility shall, in advance of competition require of each can-
didate for competition in any sport, a detailed statement in
writing of the amounts and sources of his financial earnings and
income received, or to be received during the college year and

the previous summer, from others than those upon whom he is
naturally dependent for support. In case any question arises _
with regard to the implication of this statement, the matter shall
be referred to the executive committee of the conference for
decision."

If this situation does not produce mass perjury,
then pass judgment upon the following edict: “Every candidate for
an athletic team, must, after a careful explanation of all the

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