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American colloginte eligibility causitices. If subsidizing were dignified by recoge
nition, then the insidious proselyting that is so dasinant today anang 907 of our
American colleges would be much @ininisheds This mlignant athletic lesion that de-
vitalizos may of our best athletes by the systen's hypocritical handling of sinecure
jobs should be out oute Study the roster of the profession. football leagues of the
United States with the playors' college affiliations, for a pretty fair appraisal of
where proselyting is dainante Hy soars are carried fur beyond the academic hall
by surveptitiously paying a boy moro to play football in college than he can earm on
the outside in honest employments The bey hawing tal this so-called “easy mony"
during his eligibility playing days quite mtwelly tums to professiam] football
von his eligibility ic exdwusteds

Some of our American wmiversity aduduistrators cufvor fran a deadly dies
| enet « the discaso of “buck passing”. The three great epochs in our /merican life aro
the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the yeasing of the buke

We readily recognise same alarming and attendant evils comected with
“intercollegiate athletics in sone sectors, especially foctball. However, there is,
in vy opinion, a fax better way of mocting the abtendaut evils then that endorsed
by the National Association of State Universities consarming thai "Standards of
Athletic BMigibility", draw up ty the camittes on Student Group Lifo, Noveuber,
1985, Article III of theiy vegulations follows: “the faculty camittes on eligibility
chal, in advance of competition, reguize of euch candidate for campetition in auy
sport, & detailed statement: in writing of the anounts and sources of his financial
earnings and income received, or to be received during the college year and the
previous sumer, fron others than those upon whon he is naturally dependent for supporte .
In cage eny question exises with regard to the implication of this statenmt, the
matter shall be referred to the exnoutive committee of the conference for decisions"

If the above unfair discriminatory regulation dose not produce mass perjury,
thon pass judgacut upon tle following edict: “very candidate for an athlotic toon
must, after a careful explanation of all the eligibility regulations end their