Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nebraska on stipen< By TODD CHRISTENSEN Viewpoint Editor Across the country, new attentior is being given to the old issue of pay ing college athletes, and the NCAiA finds itself more hard pressed to de fend its position than ever before. A proposal in the Nebrasks Legislature has refocused national at tention on the idea of paying studeni athletes for their contribution to th( high-profit business of colleg< football. The bill, vetoed by the governor or tVifl tViot it tli< 111 v> 51 uui1u3 uiai 11 ? iuiuivu l11v authority of the college and universi ty regents, was aimed at ending discrimination against college athletes by paying them for doing < full-time job. College athletes in Division i schools are supported througf scholarships in many cases. Follow ing NCAA regulation, each sport i: allowed a number of full scholarship! or their equivalents. For exampie, the football tearr receives 95 scholarships and the baseball team receives 13 scholar ships. There are 251 full scholarship; given annually at USC. A ful scholarship includes tuition, fees books, room and board. Football players, excluding walk ons, usually receive full scholarship; because the number of scholarships i; less than the number of athletes pei team. Partial scholarships allow th< athletic department to fund mor< athletes in recompense for theii contributions. Most schools, including USC, hav< rules prohibiting athletes fron holding jobs during the school year and NCAA regulations make it il legal for school athletic: department; tig I FOR NR( AND ( I ' Ski bill revives is for athle ,J|gp3^j t ; ? -v ^ k 1 Brad Edwards 5 > to establish payments of any kind to j the athletes. The student athlete is then put in the position of finding alternative sources of funding for , everyday expenses such as clothes, I movies and other personal purchases. Many student athletes rely on family financial support for such expenses. Brent Price, an athletic } scholarship player on the USC ; basketball team, said many athletes r come from families that cannot financially support them. Price said the athletic department should r establish a minimal stipend of "$25 to $50 a week" for the athletes, so athletes can have the same oppor, tunities that other students enjoy. , Some athletes offer different reasoning for stipends from the s athletic department. Sterling Sharpe, I E~|F 1 "4 T' M I if ^| I r 1 >1 ft^vTL I NAV1 i ?* m N f ADVENTURE ISN'T DEAD. )TC SCHOL COLLEGE P] INFOI k> L LT. MIKI ^\;203 FLY * -. ' T- , * i argument tes a former USC standout who was drafted by the Green Bay Packers earlier this year, said that an athlete should be given back a portion of his contribution to the university. "He's the one out there, entertaining the crowd," Sharpe said. "You should give the kid what he's worth. The coachs have expense accounts, coach's cars, salaries...Give the kid $100 a month." Brad Edwards, another USC standout football player and athletic scholarship recipient, agrees. "College football has become a business," Edwards said. He said the athlete who puts 32 to 40 hours a week into his sport receives little of the rewards that the athletic department receives for that athlete's performance. Athletes in non-revenue sports such as volleyball, tennis, swimming, and baseball rarely receive full scholarship assistance. Many of these athletes receive no financial aid from the athletic department, although all athletes contribute 20 to 40 hours per week to their sport. Mark Nelson, a former walk-on baseball player now receiving scholarship assistance, said athletes should get a stipend of $100 a month in recognition of their contributions. Getting a scholarship "didn't change the way I play," Nelson said. "Whether or not I got the money, 1 still gave 100 percent." Regardless of the reasoning, most student athletes do not believe they are fairly compensated for the work they put into their respective sports. With the renewed battle for paying athletes well under way, the NCAA will have to re-examine its position and determine if athletes are indeed being treated unfairly. I 1 I j 111 r \ ARSHIPS ROGRAM IMATION CALL: i HURLEY NN HALL aa^A / / I-6* Warming Up A Carolina student stretches muscles before a morning rui routes for those who are fitness-minded. Associate names Greene From staff reports Laurence S. Greene, a former world class distance runner, was named head men's and women's cross country ai coach and assistant coach of track and field at USC. !V The appointment was announced by Sterling Brown, ti associate athletic director for internal affairs. Greene, 28, b replaces Jeff Wentworth who resigned recently. C Greene graduated in the honors program at Florida State University in 1983 with the Bachelor of Arts degree a. in English and recently earned a Master of Science in E Motor Learning/Motor Control, also from Florida State, o Fie is a native of Liberty, N.Y. a In the 1981 Metro conference championships, Greene set a conference five mile record and placed first in the a 3,000 meters at the 1983 Metro Conference indoor track p and field championships. He holds FSU records for 3, 000 ti meters and three miles. n In 1984, Greene was ranked seventh in North America p for distances between 20-30 kilometers by Track and Field News and posted the fastest time in the world for that year v\ in the half-marathon. He also placed fourth in the 10,000 b meters in the TAC/USA National Championships that a year. g A OA A TO B?n xTaTkTkEAXA nKO EAE XX EOE TKE ZBT AOA AT OBE OA? OKT OKE nKA nKO EAE XT AY KA KE AXA OTO OBE OAO < TKE ZBT AOA ATO B?n XT' AY KA nKA nKOEAE EX EOE TKE ZBT AC 12TO OBE OA? 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He had the second fastest me by an American in the 10 mile run in 1987 and was a ronze medalist that year in the half-marathon at the U.S. lympic Festival in Durham, N.C. Greene served as a graduate assistant coach at FSU, nd since 1982 has worked with FSU athletes as an nglish tutor. He has also worked in the athletic business ffice at Florida State and as promotional representative nd regional team captain for Adidas/USA. "Larry Greene's background as a Metro Conference thlete as well as his academic record and tutoring exerience will be highly beneficial to our cross country and ack and field programs," Brown said in making the anouncement. "We feel he will be a strong addition to our rogram." Head Track Coach Charlie Strong noted that Greene 'as " a national class runner out of our conference with a ackround of knowledge as to what our program is bout. He's young and enthusiastic and will take our proram in the direction we have it going now. Q'1'0 OBE OA? 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