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[QUOTE="NYCSUGrad, post: 1760374, member: 971"]
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If you come from a middle class family which can afford to give you an allowance and you are on an athletic scholarship you will be fine for meeting basic needs. If, as many of the athletes who play basketball and perhaps football, you come from impoverished circumstances, your inability to earn any money whatsoever may mean not just not having the extras - like going to the movies - that most students can afford and take for granted - but depending on what after hours food is available you may go hungry as the Uconn player alleged. Up until recently one of the few foods required to be supplied to the athletes at all times was bagels. However cream cheese or other spreads were not mandated until very recently. Cream cheese for a bagel doesn't seem to me to be a luxury item. Again, it's the NCAA erring on the side of caution that punishes student athletes for the past abuses of a few.

And for your daughter who was allowed to earn 10 hours of paid work study, even at 7.25 an hour that's nearly $75 a week. Somehow I suspect a graduate student earned above the minimum wage. The student athletes can earn nothing.  Yes, assuming they are in school the full four years and aren't injured and can complete a degree they have no loans to pay back, at least for undergraduate studies. But other categories of undergraduates get full rides too AND can earn $ while in school.
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