portion of other members of the undergraduate body. The Association
feels that the problem cannot properly be met on any such arbitrary
basis. The purpose of all such aid is to enable students to receive the
benefits of a complete college education. If a boy’s need is established,
he should be entitled to aid. On the other hand, if his financial status is
such that he or his family can afford to pay for his college education, he
should be required to do so... The Association recognizes that this is a
problem in all institutional aid but believes that the same investigations
and findings in each case should be made with respect to the athlete as
with respect to any other undergraduate. Any other institutional point
of view the Association believes both undemocratic and unprofessional.

b. Any scholarship or other aid to an athlete shall be
awarded only through the regular agency established by
the institution for the granting of aid to all students; this
agency should give to the recipient a complete written
statement of the amount, duration, conditions and terms
of the award.

Note 1—Maniy instances have come to the attention of the Association
of individuals, generally not officially connected with the institution,
making promises with respect to financial aid to athletes. In many cases
this has caused embarassment to the institution’s officials, and to the
student who believed that such aid had been granted him officially by
the institution. If all institutions adopt the practice of giving a written
statement to the entering student, telling him exactly what aid is being
given, much of this difficulty may be avoided. The carrying out of this
provision will mean that the institution has a specific record of its obliga-
tion to the student, and that the student has a definite statement of the
institution’s obligation to him.

Note 2—The Association recognizes that the source of funds available
for financial aid to athletes must be carefully scrutinized and safeguarded
to prevent abuses, but it further recognizes that modern institutional
accounting practices often involve allocation or inclusion of athletic
receipts or contributions from individuals or organizations, for this pur-
pose, within general institutional budgets, which make arbitrary prohi-
bitions on the use of funds from such sources impracticable.

The Association, in determining adherence to the standards specified
in this article, may require complete information regarding the adminis-
tration of student aid in any member institution. .

Some of the factors that should be considered in order to secure accept-
able safeguards for the institution and the athlete are:

(1) Control and administration of such aid should be in the hands of
the regular agency established by the institution for the granting
of aid to all students, and independent of the athletic department of
the institution.

(2) Athletic participation should not be a condition for such aid.

(3) Awards of financial aid to athletes should be based on the same
considerations as to need, etc., as govern such awards to all students.

(4) Complete information regarding the award of such aid should
be readily available to responsible persons and organizations. It has
been found to be a desirable practice to publish in the official student
aid reports of the institutions the names of the recipients of such
aid, with the terms and amounts of such awards.

c. No athlete shall be deprived of scholarship or other aid
because of failure to compete in intercollegiate athletics.

Note 1—In some institutions aid has been granted to an athlete and
subsequently taken away if, for one reason or another, the recipient fails

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