Should Scholarship Athletes Work?

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is made by each school's financial aid office; most administrators have
estimated the costs to be between $2,000 and $3,000 a year. Athletes who choose
to work, and their employers, will be required to sign an affidavit that says
the athletes have not been hired on the basis of their athletic ability or
status and that they will be compensated only for the work they perform at a
rate commensurate with the local rate of pay for such work.
Critics of the legislation that passed said it opens the door for the
very problems that originally sparked the regulation, athletes being paid for
menial labor, and that keeping track of how much money athletes are earning will
be difficult. But according to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, "Sure there
will be bogus jobs,'' he said. "It'll open up a can of worms, but I think we
have to start living with cans of worms and let the presidents, athletic
directors, and board of trustees handle it.'' It makes more sense to have the
schools ...

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