SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE SUBSIDIZED? YES?

Subsidizing does not mean the hiring of si ew te playing ability,
at a salary based on skill. That is professionalism. Then the answer for the.
colleges is emphatically, Wot If subsidizing means "to furnish aid with a sub-

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sidy", or givine the athlete an even break with others in extracurricular ean leat

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then Yess And why not? yo Gon. aan Bares, paytlioeg mye; Gog.
"Without discrimination for or against the athlete" has long been the slogan. of’. .

the present purity collegiate eligibility rules committee. There has been much }

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talk, but little actionds Bring Ya Pe ES ant Lan tre a ee My :
Some of our American university dj eedakctedtore suffer from a deadly disease . weg
the disease of "buck passing". The laos eines epochs in our Aiea life are
the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the passing of the bucke
We readily eotet ad some alarming and attendant evils connected with inter-

collegiate athletics in some sectors, especially footballe However, there is, in

my opinion, a far better way of meeting the attendant evils than that endorsed by

the National Association of State Universities concerning their "Standards of

Athletic, Eligibility", drawn up by the committee on Student Group Life, November,

1935. Article III of their regulations follows: “The faculty committee on

‘eligibility shall, in advance of competition, require of each candidate for compe-

tition in exty sport, a detailed statement in writing of the amowmts and sources of
his paseo earnings and income received, or to be Nami during the college
year and the previous summer, from others than those ihnces. lbs he is naturally
dis peniientt for supporte In smcxexex 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 decisions"

If the above unfair eS Sorin nacory regulation does not produce mass perjury,
then pass judgment upon the following edt eke "Every candidate for an athletic

team must, after a careful explanation of all the eligibility regulations and

their implications of honor, by the faculty committee on athletics, declare orally