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'kid' up for a day, so they can
talk to him and show him around
campus."
If possible, these trips are
scheduled to coincide with the
season of the athlete's specialty.
Basketball prospects, for example,
are most heavily recruited in the
winter so that their weekend can
include a basketball game and a
post-game visit to the locker room
to meet the playerf-
Recruiting has become an ex-
tremely competitive business over
the years. More than 70 universi-
ties, for example, sought out Tom
McMillan, considered the coun-
try's top high school basketball
player two years ago.
As Dufek says, the recruited
athlete is "under a lot of pres-
sure."
One unsavory by-product of re-
cruiting which, for the most part,
seems to have died out in recent
years is offering "under the table"-
Incentives, often money, to super-
ior athletes.
While each University coach is
allowed general autonomy in re-
cruiting practices, Canham says
he could never forsee the Uni-
versity using illegal recruitment
practices.
"To my knowledge we've never
cheated," Canham says. "We are
one of the 'haves'. We don't have
to cheat."
In bargaining for athletes on
the open market, the offer of a
free education is often.the most
powerful weapon in the Univer-
sity's arsenal of inducement.
Big Ten rules permit the ath-
letic department to grant 70 "full-
ride" scholarships each year cov-
ering tuition, housing, and books
for a four-year period.
Grants are conditional on the
student's continued participation
in varsity sports can be revoked at
the end of any year by the de-
partment.'
Big Ten regulations further re-
trict the scholarships to 30 per
year for football, six for basket-
ball, and 34 for "minor" sports
including golf, track, and swim-
Ming.
Since they are calibrated on a

and athi
per year basis, the regulations al-
tow the University to carry 280
full athletic scholarships at any
one time.
Despite this year's burden of
$595,000 on the department's bud-
get, Canham feels scholarships are
necessary for the University to
stay athletically competitive with
other schools.
"It is a matter of keeping up
with the Joneses," he says.
"Keeping up with the Joneses"
means the University subsidizes
the education of nearly all its
varsity athletes. The cases of the
"walk-on" who was not recruited
and carries no scholarship is a.
rare phenomenon.
According to Canham, the ris-
ing costs of scholarships has be-
come the major problem afflict-
ing athletic. department budgets
across the country. While "the
number of scholarships is not in-
creasing, the cost of each is", due
to the rise in tuition and room
and board, he explains.
Canham seeks the answer in re-
ducing the number of scholarships
each Big Ten school may grant,
thus relieving the department
from expensive competition for
players.
Especially in the "other sports"
area, he says, the number must be
reduced. Sports such as golf and
track do not generate nearly
enough revenues to cover the cost
of placing their participants on
scholarships.
But he feels that, in order for
a cut-back to be effective, all the
schools in the Big Ten must agree
to decrease scholarships.
Once an athlete is recruited and
offered a scholarship, he must
then be accepted by the admis-
sions office - a barrier that his
athletic ability helps him hurdle.
While the general minimum
standard for admissions is a three
point high school grade average
and combined college board scores
of about 1,000, exceptions are
made for disadvantaged students-
and athletes.,
Under the Opportunity Pro-
gram, the admissions department
places a heavy emphasis on coun-
6selor's recommendations, letters

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from people In the student's com-
munity, and evidence of motiva-
tion in judging the applications
of students "whose race and/or
economic status has met social
and cultural disadvantage from
generation to generation."
According to Lance Erickson,
assistant director of admissions,
however, the admissions depart-
ment uses "the, same criteria for
athletes as it does for Opportun-
ity (Program) people" in judging
applications,
The important question, Erick-
son says, is whether the adniis-
sions office can "predict success"
for a prospective student.
Athletes can be admitted to the
University if their high school
grades and board scores "predict"
a University grade point average
at least 1.6, on a scale prepared
by the Big Ten. But, according to
Rick Bay, head of the athletic
counseling department and wrestl-
ing coach, "the prediction tables
are very conservative.
"Generally," he says, "a person
will do quite a bit better than the
tables predict. Still, we don't like
to take students who predict be-
low a 2.0," the grade point re-
quired for an athlete to remain
eligible.
A significant consideration when
attempting to determine an ath-
lete's chances of academic suc-
cess, according to Erickson, is the
large amount of tutoring he will
receive.
As he explains, "The coach
wants them tosucceed. He has
counted on these guys."~
Each year, the coaches submit
a large number of requests to the
admissions office for special con-
sideration to athletes they have
recruited. The applications of ath-
letic prospects are then evaluated
under the different standards.
Despite the liberalized policies
for athletes, some are, still turned
away, according to Erickson.

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Canham agrees, complaining
"We can't get the boys in that we
want to get in. We had two play-
ers who damn near beat us (in
football games this season). They
wanted to come here, but the ad-1
missions office wouldn't let them,
in.'
Regardless, a large number of
outstanding athletes are being ad-
mitted, largely because of the in-
creased effectiveness of recruiting
done by the athletic department.-
Once the University recruits an;
athlete, gives him one of its ex-
pensive scholarships, and nets hin
admitted, the last thing it wants
is the student to be scholastically
ineligible to participate in hisg
sport
It was with this in mind that1
the Graduate 'M' Club and the
athletic department set up thes
athletic department's counseling
and tutoring service.-
Canham describes this tutoring1
as "extremely helpful. Athletes get1
more counseling than probably
.anyone else in the University." 7
Bay feels that because of the
extra time it takes to participate
in their sports, many athletes need
academic help.
The most intense tutoring takes
place with the underclassmen, who
are getting used to the University's
academic. program.
Athletes who need apecial help
in particular courses are often tu-
tored on a one-to-one basis.
Members of the freshman foot-
ball team who must swiftly inte-
grate their academic and athletic
endeavors at the University have
a mandatory two-hour study ses-

the Vict(
sion five nights a week in a SouthI
Quad study hall.
Problems sometImes arise, how-
ever, when an athlete wants to
pursue a course of study in one of
the University's more difficult aca-
demic areas.
Sources close to athletes have
claimed that coaches and athletic
counselors occasionally place pres-
sure on athletes to transfer from
difficult major fields to less aca-
demically strenuous pursuits suoh
as physical education.
Bay, however, denies that the
department employs such prac-
tices.
Whatever school he attends, the
athlete finds his special status
helps him get preferred class
times.
Many University departments
admit they consider a student's
participation in varsity athletics
a sufficient reason for allowing
the student to enter a close sec-
tion of a course or to be given
special priority when pre-register-
ing.
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Robert Puster, office superin-
tendent for the mathematics de-
partment, said that athletes, along
with other people with constraints
on their time - such as part-time
jobs - are given special consider-
ation for getting into closed sec-
tions.
"We try to accommodate every-
one in that situation," Puster says..
Counselors for the chemistry
and English departments and for
freshman engineering agreed that
participation in a varsityisport
was sufficient reason for giving a
student special consideration in
taking a course atn aparticular
time of day, so as not to conflict
with his sport.
TOMORROW: A look at ath-
letic department priorities in re-
gard to intramural sports.

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