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UDK-VOICE OF STUDENT ACTIVITY
Scholarships aid athletes
By MIKE WALKER
An athletic scholarship accomplishes two purposes. First, it enables an athlete to acquire the opportunity to go college; and secondly, the scholarship funds made available through endowment funds help the school to bring in better athletes, thus enhancing the athletic program.
Funds are for scholarships from endowment funds. At KU, money comes from John H. Outland fund and the Jayhawk Victory Club and is available through the KU Endowment Association. Supplementary funds are these received from the profits of gate sales at athletic events.
KANSAS STATE University, recently caught up in the whirlwind program of a new coach and athletic discipline, is financed by its Grant-in-Aid program from the KSU Endowment fund. It also receives extra income from Athletic Council receipts.
The University of Missouri, in addition to receipts from gate sales and endowment funds, receives funds from program advertising and sales, and from donations. Donations at MU are sent in to the John K. Outland fund.
All Big Eight Conference schools must conform to Big Eight and NCAA rules concerning scholarships. Limits are proposed so individual schools could not use financial pressure to lure athletes within its boundaries.
Student athletes must conform to academic qualifications, athletic ability and citizenship. A student's books, tuition, room and board plus $15 a month is the maximum amount a scholarship can cover. Only partial aid may be given in tennis, wrestling, baseball and track.
DON FAUROT, Director of Athletics at MU, said scholarships offered at Missouri are renewable once they are offered, provided the athlete meets the same standards for which the award was originally made. He also said that Missouri does not offer as many scholarships in wrestling, tennis and golf as do Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Iowa State. These schools are prominent in sports every year.
An application form must be submitted and completed by the prospect, and this application must be signed by the coach of that sport. Eligibility is verified by the admissions office of the school. A certification of eligibility for Athletic Grant-in-Aid is then completed by the admissions office and forwarded to the Big Eight Conference Office in Kansas City, Mo. The application is then signed by the Director of Athletics and forwarded to the General Scholarship Committee for action.
H. B. Lee, KSU Director of Athletics, said final authority on issuing scholarships rests with the General Scholarship Committee and that the scholarship must go through five steps before it is valid.
Only 45 new scholarships in football can be issued by any Big Eight school. The reason for this action is an attempt to curb costs. No other sports are limited in quantity of scholarships. However, other sports may receive only partial scholarship funds.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Nebraska has 114 football players receiving the maximum amount of aid as prescribed by the NCAA. KU has 103 out for football, including 37 freshmen.
The athletes are provided a dorm at some schools; KSU has plans to build a dorm exclusively for athletes. The University of Alabama has a dorm that is reminiscent of a plush ski resort.
Athletes at KU receive special treatment only in that a training table is provided at one of the dorms, and that individual sports are housed in certain dorms. Track is housed in Templin, basketball and football in Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Wade Stinson, Director of Athletics at KU, said, "A good athletic program makes for a better school. It helps promote the school and to bring in new students other than athletes."
THE ATHLETIC program is a bonus to everyone connected with the school, Stinson said. For the athlete, it provides funds for scholarship, helps build morals and discipline.
For the school, a good program will attract new students. For the school treasury, the program will attract spectators to watch the university sports and the admission sales will bolster the bank account.
But the most important result of athletic scholarships is that it enables an athlete to obtain a good college education whereas he might not have been able to otherwise.
4-8 Huskers will meet KU
The Nebraska Cornhuskers will bring a 4-8 baseball conference record with them to KU when they take on the KU nine at Quigley Field this weekend. The Saturday game will be played in the morning so there will be no conflict with the KU spring intra-squad scrimmage.
Coach Tony Sharpe said that he hopes the return of spring weather will sharpen the team's attack. Nebraska and Colorado were rained out in a three-game series at Boulder. The Huskers have now been out of action for nearly two weeks.
AL FURBY, the current Big Eight leading pitcher, will probably start for NU in the first game of Friday's doubleheader. Keith Winter would then get the nod for the second game.
Mick Zangari, on the Husker sick list at the beginning of this week, is expected to start Saturday morning's nine-inning game.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — (UP)— Buffalo Bills coach Joe Collier was drafted by the New York Giants in 1953 after starring at Northwestern but did not play professional football.
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Daily Kansan Thursday, May 11, 1967
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