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GOLDEN DOME IN 2015, MEET GOLDEN RULE, AGAIN.
The current president of the University of Notre Dame gave a newspaper interview last week in which he said that rather than pay a part of the gate to athletes who are students, Notre Dame would instead consider eliminating its sports programs, football for example. The current president was firm in expressing the notion that students who are athletes at Notre Dame should be satisfied with their education and not look to get paid for their athletic efforts.
Let us apply the University president's way of looking at the world to the University president himself. Firmly, as he applied his way of looking at the world to others. By his own words he should not be taking a salary away from the University of Notre Dame. He should be satisfied with being president of the University and not look to get paid for his efforts. Hmm. Works for me. I doubt it works for him.
But if he does unto others what he would not have others do unto him, that would not be fair, to put it kindly. So, how about a different approach here.
Since Notre Dame football players, for example, should be content with their education according to the University president (and presumably wait to get paid until they graduate or turn professional whichever comes their way), then the University should not take money away from other students and pay athletes at Notre Dame with scholarships. Remember, he started this talk, not me.
If the president of the University of Notre Dame in 2015 feels safe in expressing the view that people should not be paid money to work for Notre Dame, then that view should apply to him as well as to others, in basic and simple terms.
Alternatively, stop paying out scholarship money to the athletes at Notre Dame. That might be the most logical and moral outcome after all. Some would say, and I suspect that their number includes the current president, that Notre Dame football for example 'could not compete' if Notre Dame did not hand out athletic scholarships. Hogwash. The Ivy League has apparently refused to hand out athletic scholarships for decades and their integrity and competitive programs are both intact.
In the stirring words of New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, "C'mon, Notre Dame. What are you afraid of?" See Joe Nocera, "Notre Dame's Big Bluff" p. A21, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Saturday, September 12, 2015).
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