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Student Body SEPTEMBER 1988 j
SEPTEMBER 1988 News Features
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College Football
1. MIAMI 8. LOUISIANA STATE 15. IOWA
2. NEBRASKA 9. GEORGIA 16. ALABAMA
3. OKLAHOMA 10. FLORIDA STATE 17. MICHIGAN STATE
4. UCLA 11. MICHIGAN 18. WASHINGTON
5. CLEMSON 12. NOTRE DAME 19. PENN STATE
6. SOUTHERN CAL 13. WEST VIRGINIA 20. TEXAS
7. AUBURN 14. SOUTH CAROLINA
U.'s Contributing Editors: Mike Berardino, The Daily Tar Heel, U. of North Carolina;
Steve Sipple, Daily Nebraskan, U. of Nebraska; Adam Schrager, The Michigan Daily, U. of
Michigan; Gary Henley, Oregon Daily Emerald, U. of Oregon; Phil Crane, The Auburn
Plainsman, Auburn U. (AL); Steve Davis, TheDaily Texan, U. of Texas; TomNorman, The
Daily Universe, Brigham Young U. (UT); Joe Kacik, The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia
U.; John Terry, The Oklahoma Daily, U. of Oklahoma; Brent Woods, The Daily Iowan, U.j
of Iowa; Dan LeBatard, The Miami Hurricane, U. of Miami (FL); Brian Murphy, Daily
Bruin, UCLA; Scott Rabalais, The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State U.; Andrew Gross, The
Daily Orange, Syracuse U. (NY)
Tough schedu
In compiling the first U. The
National College Newspaper Top 20,
U. chose college sports editors and wri-
ters from the nation's major confer-
ences and independents to get a cross-
section of collegiate opinion.
They see the country's top teams in
action, know the coaches and players
most often in the national spotlight
and understand the game from an on-
campus perspective. The poll was com-
piled following the first week of the
season.
Miami, with a solid corps of return-
ing players, claimed the top spot after
knocking off preseason favorite Florida
State. The Hurricanes' won't have it
easy though. A tough schedule could
open the door for challenges from trad-
les even it up
itional conference favorites.
Some of the early season inter-
conference games between Big Eight,
Big Ten and Pac-10 teams should be
previews of the major bowl games.
Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana
State will be trying to catch Auburn in
the Southeast Conference, while Clem-
son returns to top form in the Atlantic
Coast Conference. Texas should fight
it out with Texas A&M in the
Southwest
Miami isn't the only independent
worth mentioning. Florida State stays
within shouting distance despite a
tough schedule, and a wealth of rebuilt
and mainstay independents helps fill
out the Top 20.u Mark Charnock,
Student Body Editor
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Should college athletes play for pay?
Situation calls for
aid to the athlete
By Dave Allen
The Daily Orange
Syracuse U., NY
Some members of the athletic com-
munity at Syracuse U. (SU) and around
the nation agree that university
athletes should receiveaa stipend for
athletic participation, despite the fact
that it goes againstnNational Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) policy.
NCAA rules state that a student-
athlete on a full academic scholarship is
not allowed to work during the school
year, said Doris Soladay, associate
director of athletics and financial
affairs at SU.
"It's double.jeopardy," said Bernie
Fine, assistant basketball coach who
favorsaa stipend over a salary. "You
can't get money, but you can't work.
Where's he supposed to get money?
What is he gonna do? If they want
money to go out on a date or if they need
notebooks, pens, pencils and things
along those lines, they can't afford it."
ABC and ESPN basketball commen-
tator Dick Vitale agrees, saying
athletes should receive around $150 per
month.
"That $150 would at least help him to
be able to go out and do things and
maybe eliminate some of the little non-
sense that we know goes on in terms of
alumnus now," he said in a speech to SU
students. "It would just create a better
environment."
Although Syracuse head basketball
coach Jim Boeheim says coaches have
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long proposed that student-athletes re-
ceive round-trip plane tickets home and
spending money, the likelihood of it
ever happening is not feasible, he said.
"If you give everyone (all sports)
spending money, you're talking about
giving money to 200 to 300 athletes,"
Boeheim said.
Brian Boulac, an assistant athletic
director at Notre Dame U., Ind., envi-
sions the same problem with granting
student-athletes spending money.
"Some schools, the Notre Dames,
Syracuses, and Ohio States, could prob-
ably afford it because of their football
program," Boulac said. "I'm not in favor
of it. It may be too difficult to control
internally. What you get for one athlete,
you're gonna have to give to another."
Vitale has his own solution.
"The NCAA gets from CBS $165 mil-
lion for the three years to televise the
national championships," Vitale said.
"Why not take off the top of that $165
million, maybe $25 million, $30 million,
and use that money to give back to the
athletes that are busting their gut to
bring -some honor and fame to their
school. I don't mean get paid. I mean
just a little spending money."
Sports and courts:
drug-testing conflicts
keep classes current
By Bryan E. Denham
Indiana Daily Student
Indiana U., Bloomington
What requirements do schools in
the National Collegiate Athletic
Association have to meet to ran-
domlytest athletes for drug use?
What happens when an athlete re-
fuses to be tested for drugs?
These are the types of questions
that Indiana U.'s John Scanlan,
associate professor of law, addres-
ses twice a week to 40 students in
his Law and Sports class.
The class helps students in-
terested in sports law understand
how legal problems arise, Scanlan
said.
Drug testing is a major focus of
the class. In addition to drug-
related issues, the class deals with
contract disputes, anti-trust law,
eligibility requirements, sex discri-
mination and state discipline of
athletes and coaches.
The class is made up of three
kinds of students: those interested
in general law, those interested in
acting as agents and those who are
just interested in sports.
"This is a competitive area of
law," Scanlan said. "There is a lot
more interest than there are
athletes to represent."
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Fooorrre . . . A new program in professional
golf management will tee off at New Mexico State U.
this fall. Participants will earn a bachelor's degree in
business administration with a marketing major. The
program will require the highest grade point average
and American Collegiate Test score in any program
at the university, said Curtis Graham, dean of the
College of Business Administration and Economics.
Melinda Griego, Round Up, New Mex-
ico State U.
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The business of sports ... U. of South
Carolina's College of Applied Professional Sciences
is offering a new course of study in Sports Adminis-
tration. The new program, which consists of studies
of business applications to the sports industry, pre-
pares students for management careers in sports by
combining strong liberal arts with business and
sports administration studies. There are now 125
such programs in the world. Susan Bucha-
nan, The Gamecock, U. of South Caro-
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Poll: Athletes get paid enough with tuition, housing waivers
By Mike Griffin
The Crimson White
U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed
in a U. of Alabama poll said NCAA reg-
ulations should not be amended to allow
student-athletes a monetary allowance
in addition to the books, housing, meals
and tuition covered by grants-in-aid.
Seventy-one percent of those favoring
a rules change think the athletic de-
partments of universities should foot
the bill. Only 6 percent of that group
favored the use of student fees as a
source of funding.
There was no significant difference in
opinion with respect to the sex, age, race
or family income of students who re-
sponded in the survey. Nor was there a
detectable difference in results due to
the school and class rank of the stu-
dents, said Albert E. Drake, professor of
statistics and course instructor.
Basketball (99 percent) and football
(97 percent) topped the list of sports in
which participants should be paid
among students favoring the proposal.
Eighty-six percent of those students
said college baseball players also should
be paid.
"Those who were more interested in
sports were more inclined to favor
paying athletes than those who had less
interest," Drake said, adding that
perhaps those students were more in-
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