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...Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs has endorsed a report to the Hasten Collegiate Athletic Conference supporting the eligibility of varsity hockey star Game Kinasewich...
...football player at Louisiana State University, Ohio State, or any of the other big-time football schools receives much more money or its equivalent in services than Kinasewich ever did. A full scholarship with books, room, board, and a "job" at one of these schools is often worth $2,000-3,000 a year. One big southern school made it a practice to give each player $50 each week for spending money in addition to his other benefits. These subsidies may not constitute professionalism in the strictest sense of the word, but they sure are close...
...becomes simply playing basketball. Tennis players who travel the amateur tournament circuit receive expense money that does not force them out of the better class hotels. The same holds true in other supposedly amateur sports. In all these cases, the excesses are usually far more extreme than in the Kinasewich case...
...ECAC refuses to recognize this fact. Students in other ECAC colleges on athletic scholarships and those students who compete in the summer in amateur sports are every bit as professional as the ECAC claims Kinasewich is. If the ECAC really wants to restore purity to its house, it has far more serious matters to deal with than Kinasewich. And Kinasewich is only one of the 104 Canadians playing on ECAC teams...
...even playing by the ECAC's rules, it is hard to justify disqualifying Kinasewich SPORTS ILLUSTRATED recently pointed out that most of the other Canadians in the ECAC are "professionals" like Kinasewich, but had lied on eligibility affidavits about their past, Kinasewich's main problem, one might say, is that he is honest and reported his subsidy Unlike some other college "student" athletes, he is also honest about wanting an education; after all, he came to Harvard knowing he might be ineligible in the Ivy League when he had opportunities at other, less particular, schools...