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    Not Paying College Athletes 1              College Athletes Should Not Be Paid                  Jason Jia  English III‚ P.2  Phyllis Kadrmas  May 16‚ 2014     Not Paying College Athletes 2  Abstract  In recent years‚ many people debate whether college athletes should be paid  or not. This debate has gone on for many years and soon it will be solved. This  paper will talk about the negative effects of paying college athletes and the benefits  they are already receiving from their schools

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    College Athletes deserve to be Paid College athletes are the hardest working individuals in college. Balancing academics and sports is never a simple task and is especially challenging in college. The athletes are still required to achieve passing grades‚ although many of them will play professionally. Paying college athletes would benefit all athletes‚ providing a small stipend for all of the sacrifices they have made practicing‚ training‚ and traveling‚ in addition to school work. Playing

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    obvious answer: should college athletes be paid? It is one of the biggest‚ if not the biggest‚ question that surrounds the world of college sports. The answer‚ quite simply put‚ is no. Allowing universities to pay students athletes to participate in sports would require a complete overhaul of the NCAA rule book. At this stage‚ too many questions need to be answered: how much would athletes get paid? Where would the money come from? Would athletes in certain sports get paid more than others? This is

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    Play Since athletes bring millions of dollars into their colleges every year‚ universities should compensate their athletes. College athletes today put in as much time as someone with a full time job. Ramog Huma‚ a Korean College athlete and president of the National College Players Association says “college athletes are just like all other hard www.scholastic working Americans’‚ they should receive a fair days pay for a fair days work” (sic)(Rebeca Zisscu np.) College athletes often work 40

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    If you told adolescents that their texting capabilities would be taken away‚ they would take to the streets in revolution. The same young people would make a endless list of “texting benefits.” However‚ texting can have consequences as well‚ due to how and when the technology is used. Texting can threaten personal safety‚ distract people‚ and encourage rudeness. Even though there are many benefits of texting‚ there can also be many negative consequences‚ some of them can be very harmful as well.

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    2014 Should College Athletes Be Paid? The NCAA makes billions of dollars every year off of college sports (Johnson). Last year the NCAA men’s basketball tournament made nearly 1.15 billion dollars just off of the television ads ran during the tournament (Johnson). Athletes should be paid for their time and efforts put into the sport. They are making a ton of money for other people and they don’t get to see any of it. There are many reasons that college athletes should be paid‚ they make the colleges

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    Should College Athletes be paid? There is a huge debate around the nation‚ whether college athletes should be paid. Since college athletes contribute to millions of dollars in revenue for the NCAA as well as their respective schools‚ many argue that they deserve to be paid. On the other hand‚ since many college athletes get free education and other benefits‚ many say they are being compensated already. All things considered‚ college athletes should not be paid because after all‚ most college athletic

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    retired professional ice hockey player‚ “the NCAA makes over 6 billion dollars yearly.” All this money goes to support championships and programs that benefit student athletes and for building operations. The NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization but they sell jerseys with the star athletes names on them. The “student-athletes” get none of the money that is made by selling their name on the jerseys. Even though they get a free education with their scholarship‚ college athletes should be

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    Should College Athletes Be Paid? Should college athletes be paid? This question has been the subject of debate for many years. There are pros and cons to both sides of the issue‚ but college athletes deserve to be paid for several reasons. One reason is that college athletes are not allowed to work and earn money when they are playing a sport. Another is that college athletes can contribute to a winning team that attracts fans and raises ticket sales and can bring in money through sponsorships

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