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Are_grits_groceries's JournalDo you know why the term 'student-athlete' was coined? You should.
For our purposes, however, the most interesting excerpt chronicles the how and the why of the NCAA’s creation and widespread promotion of the term “student-athlete.” According to Branch, the main reason that former NCAA head Walter Byers, in his own words, “crafted the term student-athlete” and soon made sure it was “embedded in all NCAA rules and interpretations” was because it was an excellent defense against being held liable for workers compensation benefits that those injured in athletic competition could seek.
The term student-athlete was deliberately ambiguous. College players were not students at play (which might understate their athletic obligations), nor were they just athletes in college (which might imply they were professionals). That they were high-performance athletes meant they could be forgiven for not meeting the academic standards of their peers; that they were students meant they did not have to be compensated, ever, for anything more than the cost of their studies. Student-athlete became the NCAA’s signature term, repeated constantly in and out of courtrooms.
Using the “student-athlete” defense, colleges have compiled a string of victories in liability cases. On the afternoon of October 26, 1974, the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs were playing the Alabama Crimson Tide in Birmingham, Alabama. Kent Waldrep, a TCU running back, carried the ball on a “Red Right 28” sweep toward the Crimson Tide’s sideline, where he was met by a swarm of tacklers. When Waldrep regained consciousness, Bear Bryant, the storied Crimson Tide coach, was standing over his hospital bed. “It was like talking to God, if you’re a young football player,” Waldrep recalled.
Waldrep was paralyzed: he had lost all movement and feeling below his neck. After nine months of paying his medical bills, Texas Christian refused to pay any more, so the Waldrep family coped for years on dwindling charity.
Through the 1990s, from his wheelchair, Waldrep pressed a lawsuit for workers’ compensation. (He also, through heroic rehabilitation efforts, recovered feeling in his arms, and eventually learned to drive a specially rigged van. “I can brush my teeth,” he told me last year, “but I still need help to bathe and dress.”) His attorneys haggled with TCU and the state worker-compensation fund over what constituted employment. Clearly, TCU had provided football players with equipment for the job, as a typical employer would—but did the university pay wages, withhold income taxes on his financial aid, or control work conditions and performance? The appeals court finally rejected Waldrep’s claim in June of 2000, ruling that he was not an employee because he had not paid taxes on financial aid that he could have kept even if he quit football. (Waldrep told me school officials “said they recruited me as a student, not an athlete,” which he says was absurd.)
The long saga vindicated the power of the NCAA’s “student-athlete” formulation as a shield, and the organization continues to invoke it as both a legalistic defense and a noble ideal. Indeed, such is the term’s rhetorical power that it is increasingly used as a sort of reflexive mantra against charges of rabid hypocrisy.
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More:http://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/how-the-ncaa-has-used-the-term-student-athlete-to-avoid-paying-workers-comp/
It's still that way. If a student-athlete is injured, the school is not required to pay for any other care after a point that may arise from the injury. They may but that's up to them.
And student-athletes aren't awarded FOUR year scholarships. They are for one year and they may or may not be renewed in the next year. If a s-a is hurt, schools can and have pulled their scholarships.
Coaches can and do jump from school to school regardless of what their contract says. Some have big buyout clauses in order to be released. However, if another school wants that coach badly enough, they will find the money to pay the buy out amount.
Student-athletes have to sit out a full year if they transfer to most other schools. In addition, the school they played for doesn't have to release them to transfer. They can also put restrictions on what schools they can transfer to.
So, I support the union movement. It is the only thing that has gotten any talk of change out of the NCAA and the schools. If the NCAA were concerned with the S-As they would have done something before now.
I personally don 't think a strict union structure would be the best model for university athletics. It would probably have to be a hybrid that takes into account the many unique aspects of the athletes. However, unions are the only game in town now so I am on their side.
Scat has suggested Tater and Moonpie work in a circus (& I quickly remembered 1 thing about kittens)
(Tater is looking into the camera)
Scat was none too pleased at Tater's trick of launching herself onto the bed within a foot or two of Scat's throne. Scat still just hisses and growls. Every now and then she forgets to make the appropriate noises indicating they are unacceptable and just goes on by them.
I guess she will just have to have her say for a while. At least she doesn't physically attack them.
They just look at Scat like she's some strange variation of other cats.
*******
I have to give Tater and Moonpie liquid meds because of a minor upper respiratory infection. Scat and Mousie were never thrilled about meds but they were too lazy to react much except on certain occasions.
Not Tater and Moonpie. They turn into tiny whirling dervishes with eleventy billion legs and claws. i have to swaddle them.
I have received an email from the firm of
"Katz, Katz In The Hatz"
They are lawyerz representing Scat. They have presented me with a court order from Judge Bast. I have to be out of the apartment by 4/11/2014 along with Tater and Moonpie.
I am still wading through the cateleze to determine what else I am required to do.
I am looking for feline barristers to represent me.
Day 2: Scat, Tater, and Moonpie
Moonpie
Tater
Princess Scat
Tater is wide loose zooming around the apartment. Moonpie follows along but at a slower pace.
Scat is busy snitting and swanning around the apartment because of the urchins I have let into her castle. As we say in the South, she thinks they are tacky.
She has expressed her displeasure by hissing and growling from her bed. She refuses to do anything as gauche as swat at them or chase them.
Scat did come face to face with Tater on one excursion. She left immediately as if she had seen Jabba the Hutt.
It hasn't even been 24 hours. Time will tell. When they begin to plot together against me then the circle will be complete.
PS I am going to get one of those beanbag chairs in my gif when they are older.
BREAKING ON CNN:
The Search for Judge Crater
Another in depth study of a mystery crying out for a resolution using every technology known to man and some from the beyond.
Never mind real news. We are all just extras in a galactic version of "Lost."
I'll bet the aliens who created this are making a mint (or whatever is the corresponding unit in their terms).
Meet my 2 new buddies: Tater and Moonpie:
Tater
Moonpie
Tater and Moonpie
They are 3 month old sisters. They are sweeties who explored every inch of the vet's office including the counters they jumped on from the examination table.
Scat claims they are spawn of Satan. She may take a while to convince.
(I will post better pics)
Animation Shows How Chile's Tsunami Took Over The Entire Pacific Ocean
This time-lapse animation simulates how waves caused by the magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Chile on April 1 spread across the Pacific Ocean over 30 hours. The animation really highlights the reach of a dangerous tsunami. Though this earthquake wasn’t large enough to send destructive waves across the entire ocean, a quake closer to magnitude 9 certainly could.
Here’s the really scary part: The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in 1960 that occurred in nearly the same spot on Chile’s coast as the quake this week. The resulting tsunami killed 61 people in Hawaii and 138 in Japan. The quake and tsunami combined caused 1,655 deaths.
Both of these quakes occurred in what is called a subduction zone, where an oceanic plate is being pushed beneath a continental plate and back into the Earth’s mantle. A continuous subduction zone runs along South America’s Pacific border. Subduction zones are capable of bigger quakes than any other type of plate boundary, and are also responsible for the active volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean.
The second largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.2 in a subduction zone near Anchorage Alaska in 1964, which resulted in a tsunami that killed 11 people nearly 2,000 miles away in Crescent City, California and 128 people total with waves that reached up to 220 feet high in places. A tsunami caused by another subduction zone event in the Pacific Northwest in 1700 damaged boats, fields and houses in Japan. And of course, the tragic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in a subduction zone by Sumatra killed more than 200,000 people.
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/chile-tsunami-animation/
Wow!
Honey Maid released a response to the messages they received about their inclusive family ad:
Calling all South Carolinians: Need help in Superintendent of Education election
Sheila Gallagher has entered the Dem race. She has the backing of Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter.
She has taught for over 30 years and served in various NEA posts in and for SC. That is a godforsaken job in many ways here.
I can promise that she will raise holy hell with the PTB. She will also try to form a consensus for as many issues she can among Dems to move things forward. If that proves futile, she will do her best to stop and/or slow the regressive measures that will certainly be running around.
I can tell you that she keeps an eye on the money. Unlike others who supposedly serve the citizens, she takes a dim view of misspent or misplaced funds. If nothing else, that will be refreshing.
These are my views after knowing her for 40 years. You want her in your foxhole.
Once more into the breach.....
Calling all South Carolinians:Need any help in Superintendent of Education election
Sheila Gallagher has entered the Dem race. She has the backing of Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter.
She has taught for over 30 years and served in various NEA posts in and for SC. That is a godforsaken job in many ways here.
I can promise that she will raise holy hell with the PTB. She will also try to form a consensus for as many issues she can among Dems to move things forward. If that proves futile, she will do her best to stop and/or slow the regressive measures that will certainly be running around.
I can tell you that she keeps an eye on the money. Unlike others who supposedly serve the citizens, she takes a dim view of misspent or misplaced funds. If nothing else, that will be refreshing.
These are my views after knowing her for 40 years. You want her in your foxhole.
Once more into the breach.....
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