—The Daily Collegian Friday, Dec. 4, 1981 Sports: An educational experience? By BRIAN E. BOWERS Daily Collegian Staff Writer Many college athletes go through their college careers scheduling courses that prepare them in no way for a career said Allen L. Sack, director of the Center for Athlete's Rights and Education (CARE). They play their sports, drawing money into the college, and receive no real compensation for it other than grants-in aid, he said. Since a real education may not be received in some cases, these grants may actually be no compensation. If such a college player is not drafted by a professional team, he or she has contributed to the welfare of the college Without any personal benefits, Sack said. Student athletes are being exploited by the colleges and universities that use their services to generate revenue, Sack said during a program titled "Profes sionalism in Intercollegiate Sports," pre sented by Colloquy last night. Sack, who played football for the Uni versity of Notre Dame and was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams, said he got a degree from Notre Dame but was not sure he really got an education. The tremendous stresses placed on college athletes do not permit one. Student athletes - who play "big time" sports are, in effect, employees of the college and students at the same time. They perform a service and receive a form of pay a scholarship. There are many conflicts in this situation, he said.. CARE sees the scholarship as a type of contract between the college and the student athlete and the college should live up to its end of the deal to provide an opportunity for education, Sack said. This may mean recognizing athletes require a reduced schedule during the season, he said. As a graduate teaching assistant at the University when he was doing graduate work in sociology, Sack was not per mitted to take more than two courses a term. Such a system should be instituted for athletes. 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Sick said 65 percent of the players in the National Football League did not receive college degrees. The percentage is even higher in the National Basketball Association, he said. Those athletes who play big time sports that draw a lot of revenue should be in some way compensated for their services, Sack said. Many college athletes recieve "under the table" money, but it is frowned upon, and the student is the one who .usually loods bad, Sack said. "I'n) shocked that it is the athletes are the ones who feel guilty . . . when they are actually getting what they deserve," Sack said. He would rather see payments made "above board," but direct payments to players are something CARE is not re ady to support, he said. Lawyers for CARE are working on a proposal that colleges set up trust funds for student athletes to be drawn upon after graduation to further their educa tion, Sack said. The college should pay for a full education to make up for what was missed while playing big time sports. CARE has a branch that works on the special problems of women athletes. Sack said CARE takes the position that title IX, with all its flaws and inconsis tancies, is still one of the most progres sive things to happen to Women's sports. According to Title IX: Male and fe male athletes should receive equal treat ment, benefits and opportunities in federally-funded programs and institu tions. Also, although women are not ex ploited quite as much as men, they will GET YOUR COPY!!! HUB MAIN DESK STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE be when women's sports become more commercialized, he said. Sports medicine is also a major con cern of CARE. People must take control of what goes into their bodies, Sack said. Athletes should be informed what steroids and other substances will do to the body. "Commercialized college sports and education do not mesh," Sack said. ' It has always been this way and it is getting worse, Sack said. Many Division 111 schools are moving up to Division II 202 HUB L-‘V 4-1 6 , NV 4 .4x,1 .543 *forking *tuffets Straw caddies, back scratchers, bamboo pic ture frames, placemats, coasters, chopsticks, bread baskets, feather dusters, sewing baskets, and much much more! 99(Z and up Allen L. Sack so they can capitalize on their sports programs. "The money from cable television 'is inducing colleges every day," he said. The CARE was formed about a year ago to protect the legal, educational and medical rights of college and high school student athletes, Sack said. The response to CARE from high school coaches has been rather good, but many college athletic directors are not as favorable and some have come out against the organization, he said. Bellefonte route not to be X'd By MARGARET ANN WALSH Daily Collegian Staff Writer Both the Bellefonte Municipal Council and the Centre Area Trans portation Authority 'have reversed their decisions to discontinue the Centre Line X-route and have agreed to maintain the service through 1982. The Bellefonte council had voted 5- 3 on Nov. 2 to stop funding CATA for the buses. However; on Nov. 16 the council unanimously voted to contin ue the funding. The council passed three motions in connection with the buses. '• The first motion accepts CATA's proposed 1-year contract. The con tract is for nine trips daily during 1981 with the fare set at $1.25. The X route now runs 10 trips a day at a cost of $l.lO. . CATA General Manager Paul Oversier said a decision is expected soon about which trip to cut. The price of annual passes on the X-route, as well as Big 22 passes, will also increase, he said. The in crease should reflect the 13.5 per cent increase of the individual fares. Bellefonte's share for the service will be $9,300, Oversier said. The second motion calls for a referendum'in April on whether Bel lefonte should use tax money to fund bus service. Council member Joseph Masullo said the contract will result in a tax Task .force announces it will begin work WASHINGTON (AP) A newly formed task force aimed at getting char ities, businesses and citizens to do more for their local communities announced Thursday it is starting work that Presi dent Reagan wants finished by the end of next year. "I believe there is a new dawn," said C. William Verity Jr., chairman of Arm ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY increase of 1.25 or 1.5 mills for the municipality in 1982. The council also approved the formation of a committee in Jan- uary to'study the possibility of form ing a transit auth?rity in Bellefonte. Masullo, who proposed the mo tions, was opposed . to funding the service through 1982. "We shouldn't use any local mon ey," he said, "but I realize we have to have bus service. "We should form our own authori ty and lease the service from CATA and then apply for state and federal funds." Rosemary St. Clair, a newly elect ed council member and one of the organizers of the Concerned Citizens of Bellefonte group to save the serv ice, said she was very pleased . with the council's decision. "I'm pleased that enough people supported us to get them (the coun cil) to take another look," she said. St. Clair said she hopes to be named• to the committee that will look into the bus situation. "I want to try to avoid having the same thing happening again next fall when the contract comes up for approval," she said. CATA reversed its Nov. 6 decision to stop running the X-route as of Dec. 31. The authority voted on Nov. 20 to continue the service, pending the signing of a contract with Belle fonte. co Steel and head of the task force on private sector initiatives which seeks to "encourage businesses and others at the local level to realize responsibility to solve local problems is at the local lev el." The task force came into being in connection with Reagan's plans for cuts in the federal budget. Congress agrees to set figures By JOHN SCHLANDER ';` Daily Collegian Staff Writer Much of the budget figure squabbling that plagued the most recent round of congressional debates may be avoided in the next round because Congress and the Reagan administration agreed Wednes- day to a set of budget figures, said U.S. , Rep. William F. Clinger, R-central Pa., yesterday. However, Clinger said, this is just a temporary solution and major problems still exist in the budget process. - Confusion reigned in the most recent budget battle. President Reagan used his first presi 'l dential veto shortly before Congress's Thanksgiving recess a veto that left part of the federal government disman tling itself, and raised questions about the integrity of the budget•process. The veto, a rejection of a $427.8 billion emergency funding measure, forced the I unprecedented move of the government "going out of business." Congress then quickly passed a 25-day bill with funding at last year's level. The budget battle resumes Dec. 15. Clinger had voted earlier for deeper cuts, especially in defense, and warned * that if the deeper cuts were not enacted, a veto would be possible. "Right now, we're faced with kind of a nightmare situation," Clinger said. "As suming we pass the continuing resolu tion, that still means we have not passed the budget for 1982. And we'll be wres tling with appropriations bills into Jan uary and February. 'Right now, we're faced with kind of a nightmare situation. Assuming we pass the continuing resolution, that still means we have not passed the budget for 1982.' Rep. William F. Clinger (R-central Pa.) "At the same time we're going to be considering the budget for 1983. We're going to be trying to cope with two budgets at the same time." The budget problems6re not new this year, Clinger said. "The problem we face this year has been a growing vne. This budget process worked very well in the first two years (starting in 1974). But as time has gone on, it just seems more and more difficult to meet the deadlines, to come up with the votes on these things. "In the last couple years there has been an almost total breakdown of the budget process on the congressional side. That may well be because there's a more partisan atmosphere (in Washington, D.C.) which I think is unfortunate. "I would anticipate Congress is going to have to make a real effort to get its act together and somehow reform the budget process." One possible reform is a 2-year budget plan, rather than yearly budgets. Clinger said he might support such a plan "A lot of states do that. It seems to work rather well," he said. The main problem with such a plan is that economic prediction is difficult enough for one year, much less two years, he said. _ _ • _ "But you could enact a budget and tune it as you go along," he said. Clinger is supporting a proposal that would amend the Constitution to limit the growth in government spending to the same rate as the increase in national income. However, as the situation now stands, a repeat of the federal government's "going out of business" is still quite possible, Clinger said. "I anticipate Reagan will veto many more bills,", he said. "In this case, it was perhaps more symbolic than anything else. He had to make a stand. He was serious about holding to his budget. "Congress did not emerge with any glory out of that and the President has received a lot of criticism because of the shutdown. So I think everyone at this point is trying to avoid that kind of a shoot-out." HOLIDAY FESTIVAL VIII December 4-13, 1981 "AN INTER-CULTURAL CELEDRATION" International Holiday Festival VIII, "An Inter-cultural Celebration", is sponsored by a consortium of Penn State student organizations and administrative units. It is a week long festival of events that integrates programs representing cultures from around the world with the traditional American holiday of Christmas. Now in its eighth year, the Festival has become a culturally unique Penn State tradition. • Fridoy December 4 Reception Sunday December 6 International Fair 12 noon-6pm Messiah "Sing In" 3:oopm Monday December 7 Noontime Concert 12 noon Symposium 11 am-spm Tuesday December 8 Noontime Concert 12 noon Wednesday December 9 Plant Sale Noontime Concert 12 noon Craft Demonstration 7:oopm Art of the Contemporary American Indian International Cultures Exhibit International Artifacts Sale Watercolors by Dorothy Crowley Woodcuts by Gordon Mortensen all exhibits through December 1 Bth Pennsylvania State University Schedule of Events Dec. 4-9,1981 12:30pm 1 Oam-4pm Exhibitions Baker drops a proposal to extend voting act By MIKE SHANAHAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) "One of the shortest-lived trial balloons in history" deflated yesterday as Ma jority Leader Howard Baker dropped his effort to get the Senate to approye an extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act this year. The Tennessee Republican, said neither supporters nor opponents of a tough voting rights renewal showed much interest in the propo- sal he offered less than 24 hours earlier for a simple 10-year exten sion of the civil rights law. Baker proposed the simple exten sion Wednesday, saying he hoped it would avoid a lengthy and bitter debate on a House-approved version that Senate conservatives would likely filibuster. But yesterday, he announced that his proposal . was resisted by both sides, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., the leading Sen ate supporter of the voting rights Kern Lobby HUB Ballroom Schwab Aud Kern Lobby International Music , 101 Kern "International Development are women losing out?" issue oriented panel discussions Kern Lobby International Music Kern Lobby Kern Lobby Kern Lobby University Committee on International Programs HUB Gallery HUB Art Alley Kern Lobby Kern Gallery Kern Gallery Campus-Wide Programming Committee International Council Graduate Student Association Community Hospitality Council The Daily Collegian Friday, Dec. 4, 1981-5 renewal measure approved by the House last Oct. 5. With Sen. Strom Thurmond, R 5.C.., chairman of the Senate Judi ciary Committee at his side, Baker said he floated the simple extension plan to test the reaction. "It was one of the shortest-lived trial balloons in history," Baker said. Both Kennedy and Thurmond set conditions on accepting Baker's plan. Thurmond insisted on a provision making it easier for states to get out from under enforcement of the 1965 law. Kennedy wanted a provision eliminating a requirement that the government has to prove that a jurisdiction intended to violate the rights of black and minority voters. Neither would be included in a simple extension of the act as pro posed by Baker. As a result, Thurmond will go ahead with hearings scheduled for early next year. Official opening of Holiday Festival VIII Public invited for International crafts, foods, exhibits, performing arts, and films. Admission Free . . Foods for sale. Public invited to join the University Choirs, Lutheran Student Parish, and the Nittany Valley Symphony in performing. Holiday plants grown by Horticulture, Dept. Holiday Music Czechoslovakian Dough Sculpture by Dagmar Tichy Sponsors
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