...Alcohol consumption is not illegal in the United States, unless people are under 21 years old. Almost every student in college campuses that is over 21 years old wants to drink alcoholic beverages. Some even think that alcohol should be allowed on college campus. However, if alcohol is allowed on campus, it could possibly impact under 21 years old students and other students who don’t drink in terms of academic development and students’ health. The truth is that drinking alcohol under 21 is illegal. People may say many college students drink anyway, but officially, it is against the law. Many college students smoke pot which is also illegal, but that does not mean campuses allow students to smoke up. Although students have many reasons to drink alcohol on campus, such as events regarding friends, parties, relaxation, etc., the reality is drinking alcohol can damage all students’ physical health, emotional health, and mental health. The first reason why alcohol should not be allowed on college campuses is because it damages students’ physical health. Many students may say that researchers have pointed out that drinking a limited amount of alcohol may be beneficial. The problem is how many people can drink alcohol in a controlled manner to receive those benefits from alcohol? Even though students start to drink in a healthy way, students will ask for more and more gradually. Finally, students can likely become addicted. The addiction can take a physical tell whereby a student...
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...children. Some have been at elementary schools, college campuses, and even at a movie theater. What makes people think that by allowing college students to have guns on their campus will help solve this problem? Instead of helping, it might make things worse. There should not be any type of weapon on college campuses. There should be more restrictions on permitting guns rather than allowing more people to have access to them. Guns on college campuses should be prohibited because it can damage people’s emotional wellbeing, cause accidents, and raise crime rates. In the Constitution, there were ten Amendments added to it which gave people certain rights and privileges. These amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. It was passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, and was later ratified on December 15, 1791 (Amendment II Right to Bear Arms). The second Amendment of the United States Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary...
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...Should College Athletes Get Paid? College athletes should be paid for playing at the college level. This topic is interesting to me because it has been a debatable topic for a long time. College athletes deserve to get a pay check because they are still responsible to keep their grades up while playing and training for football. They work harder than the pros because they have more of a motivation to get to the higher profession than someone who is already there. They can use that money to help support their families. The coaches are getting paid but they don’t play a sport or endure in a sport. The NCAA is making a profit out of them. In all honesty, the college athletes are one of the most hardest working athletes that don’t get paid. College...
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...Kolten Miracle College Athletes Should Be Paid Should college athletes be paid? Of course they should because they work hard on their sport. The average time spent on practicing in division 1 sports is 43.3 hours a week! This is more than the average worker spends a week! Another reason college athletes should be paid is because if they were paid the game/sport would be way more interesting and fun to watch. Also college athletes bring a lot of money to the school and they don’t get any of it, how is that fair? College athletes spend a lot of time working and practicing on their sport. They spend every day and every chance they get either on the field/court working and practicing or even in the gym working out to be stronger for their sport....
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...Thomas Bessinger Professor Hortman February 18, 2014 Should Student-Athletes get paid? A very popular question that has been lingering around the sports world for sometime now is whether or not student-athletes should get paid. There are a lot of different opinions about this topic. The NCAA does not allow student-athletes to receive any type of benefits of any kind from the university; if the student-athlete does, he is no longer an amateur athlete and can no longer compete at the college level. This problem has been common over the past years and is causing athletes and universities to be penalized. If the NCAA would allow student-athletes to receive some benefits this would not be as common. Therefore, student-athletes should get paid because they are making money for their university, many student-athletes cannot have a job, and it is unfair for the NCAA to profit off of student-athletes. This reasoning has led many people to try and incorporate change in the collegiate world. Student-athletes, particularly at “big time” schools, have been bringing in millions of dollars in for their universities. The universities are selling jerseys that have the athletes’ names on the back, but the student-athletes are not receiving anything from that (Chen, 2013). Student-athletes are not even allowed to sell their jerseys or other apparel that is given to them by the university. In 2010 the NCAA did an investigation and found out that AJ Green sold one of his jerseys for $1000...
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...College athletes have an average of a 50 hour scheduled weekly. Why do they have so many hours every week? It’s because of their sports and then they have to maintain a full college schedule which is 10 hours, plus four hours of studying for every hour of class. Do you think they should be paid now? If college football players were paid it would make the sport more competitive, and more fun to watch. NFL players are paid for their tier and performance per game, also including their yearly salary. So college football players could not just spend their money willingly, they would need to work for the money. So by paying college football athletes the harder they would work would result in the amount of money they make. Also the NCAA is a 11 billion dollar organization and the only reason why the NCAA is worth 11 billion dollars...
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...Recently parents have decided to take the issue of military services recruiting in high school to the school board. Some parents are concerned and feel that military services should not be allowed in high schools because they lie and because they are aggressive with their recruiting tactics. Military services should be allowed to recruit in high schools in order to help all students be successful upon graduation by providing an opportunity for at risk students to leave their current situation. Also it provides students who will not attend college an alternate route of gaining valuable skills, and to provide an opportunity for low income students. Parents concerns for military recruiting in the school is that military recruiters lie to students about benefits and are aggressive in their recruiting tactics. “One of the most common lies told by recruiters is that it is easy to get out of the military if you change your mind.”(Ayers 2006) All though some military recruiters will lie and deceive others in order to get them to enlist not all military recruiters lie. Also with today’s technology any student can do their own research to verify the information a recruiter is distributing. Also parents believe the military service have gotten to aggressive with recruiting. The argument is teens are attracted to the free gifts and make a quick decision. Yes the military uses materials that they have branded with their logo to attract students attention. ( Atten-hut! ) However a student...
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...John Tommeraas 9-4-14 English 102 TT2:30 #1 Persuasive “Show Me the Money!” College athletes should be paid a percentage of the sales that they generate with their play. They devote a lot of time and effort to these sports, and are awarded with a free education but student athletes are not allowed to work a job. So how do they have any money to buy everyday things; many college athletes have money problems while in college. It’s not only money problems for student athletes, they have to give up a lot of time to their sport, they are taken advantage of by the National College Athletics Association (NCAA), and they are forced to miss class and other activities. College athletes give so much time to their sport, and they receive nothing for it. “The typical Division I college football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to his sport — 3.3 more hours than the typical American work week”.(Edelman) If college athletes dedicate that many hours a week to a sport, they should be given some type of compensation. These college athletes don’t have much time for any other activities besides their respected sport. So they don’t have much of a college experience, college is more of a transition time for the best athletes. They’re only in college because the pro level of their sport requires them to be out of high school for a certain period of time. Students are also forced to attend mandatory study halls and tutor sessions. Student athletes can also be suspended from their sport if they...
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...English 1101 4 December 2014 Should College Athletes Be Paid? College sports is one of America’s biggest industries. It is an industry that brings in almost 4 billion dollars every year to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). The NCAA is not the only one profiting from this large industry. TV networks like ESPN and CBS, retailers, and of course universities make millions each year because of the work of college athletes. It seems that everyone is profiting off the college sports industry except for the ones who are actually performing. College athletes are not being compensated for their hard work and diligence in this highly profitable market industry. While some college athletes get scholarships, which are renewed each year depending on the athlete’s performance and usefulness to the team, that is still not enough to meet the needs of the athletes. Also these college athletes cannot profit off their marketability and their name. College athletes are not allowed to receive anything of monetary value in exchanged for autographs or memorabilia. Every year, thousands of student athletes across America sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form 08-3a, the “Student-Athlete” form, waiving their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image (Infante et al). However, retailers and college universities make millions off these athletes with university apparel with the athlete’s number on the merchandise. College athletes also bring a lot...
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...College Athletes Should Be Compensated For many colleges and universities athletics programs are a major source of revenue for its institutions. These institutions rely on their athletes to keep the notoriety and popularity of their institutions name. Since, college’s athletes are supposed to be the best at the sports they play, why are they not being compensated? Some might say a student athlete’s scholarship for a free education is compensation enough. However, there are some that say the amount of money institutions make from its athletes is so great that student athletes should be given a kickback. Student athletes should be compensated for the time and performance they give to help their college and universities uphold their reputations. Certainly, both sides of this debate have made very compelling arguments in support of their views. There are those who believe that college athletes should be compensated somehow or be given a stipend for extra money to cover the costs or living that are not provided with their scholarships (Nocera No pg.). Most college scholarships fall on average about $3,500 short of the total cost of attending college each year (Nocera No pg.). Many student athletes come from low-income families and rely heavily on athletic scholarships to get them into a quality school (Burgett No pg.). Although student athletes are given a full scholarship to their school of choice these scholarships do not provide the money necessary for entertainment, travel expenses...
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...If you follow any college sport you’ve seen the scandals in the headlines: Players arrested for shoplifting. Coaches investigated for giving gifts to players. Why are seemingly household-name college football players having to shoplift clothes and food? Why can’t a coach take care of his players in need? Answer: The NCAA’s impractical, unrealistic, and downright greedy regulations. There needs to be an immediate reform on these regulations and increase the cap placed on athletic scholarships. Right now, with college sports being a multi-billion dollar industry, the income for a student athlete receiving what is considered a full scholarship, is at or below the national poverty level, due to NCAA restrictions. Students living in poverty level while their fair market value averages $265,000 annually, not including income from individual commercial endorsement deals. Students living in poverty while their coach makes an average of $3.5 million per year. Students living in poverty allowing for tax payers to fund food stamps and welfare benefits while their multi-million dollar income...
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...SPM 210 Why should College Athletes Get Paid? By Calvin Mainor E013280 11/20/2013 Under current NCAA regulations, "all student athletes are prohibited from receiving any payment for their efforts". Exploited athletes generate millions of dollars for their schools, and never see a dime. Is this fair? The universities, coaches, boosters, scouts for recruiting purpose are all getting paid off the players. But the major reasons why the stadiums and arenas are filled up are because of the players but they don’t see a penny of the money. Some universities build academic buildings on campus with the money that the players make for the school. Some coaches even get a percentage of the tickets revenue from the home games the players get nothing. The school pays coaches millions of dollars to coach the player who do the work. The college athletes are slaves to the schools and the coaches. The coaches treat the players as workhorses; the student-athletes can’t even choose their own major sometimes. The student-athletes can’t have a job so where are they supposed to get money from. People say that student-athletes get four-year scholarship, or a free education, but that is not true. Student-athletes only get a year to year scholarship which they can be dropped from the scholarship for a number of reasons. The idea of college athletes being slaves have to get settled for the greater good of athletes and institutions graduation rates. College sports are big business...
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...in a day and 168 hours in a week. The average person is told they should receive 8 hours of sleep a night. The average full time college student spends about 12 to 15 hours in class every week. If you take the average amount of sleep a person should get plus 15 hours of class, then the average college student is already down 79 hours every week, and this does not include time for studying, meal time, transportation, etc. Now let’s apply this to a college athlete. In a study done on college athletes in 1988, individuals during their sport on season were averaged to spend about 30 hours a week in some sort of activity related to their sports (Bower 1998) and in 2008 athletes claim to spend an additional...
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...Imagine sitting in a classroom, just like any other day. All of a sudden, two of your classmates walk in with guns, shooting you and your fellow peers. The idea might sound far off, but that is what happened at the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999. According to a school safety timeline, “Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, go on a shooting rampage and kill 12 students and one teacher, wound 23 others and then kill themselves” (School Safety Timeline). Weapons were not allowed at the high school, but that did not stop the students. However, there is a large debate going on about whether or not teachers and college students should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on school grounds for self-defense. If teachers and university...
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... Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division I school, a NFL team ultimately drafts only 1.6% of NCAA senior football players.[iii] Meanwhile, the top schools themselves often profit nicely from their players through ticket sales, alumni donations, media rights, and branding, all while paying large salaries to coaches and building state-of-the-art athletic facilities. The top ten NCAA schools with college football...
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