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Should athletes get special treatment?
Editor’s note: 1 his is the first
in a three part series exploring
how college athletes are treated
once they’ve been recruited. Part
I focuses on the mainstreaming
practices of Notre Dame Univer
sity and Penn State University.
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer .
Are today’s college athletes
students or high-priced exiles?
As sports fans we idolize the
athlete because we win when he
I does. As sports critics we stress
alumni pressures and recruiting
violations as signs of a corrupt,
overemphasized institution. As
sports journalists we look for that
certain charm, charisma and ad
jectival flair that characterizes a
“good interview.”
But what of the athlete him
self? Does his happiness matter?
According to several of the
| most influential coaches in the
1 nation today, the integration of
| the collegiate athlete into the
I mainstream of college life is an is-
[ sue dealt with individually, fun-
[ damentally, regionally, not very
I well and sometimes, not at all.
While the methods to achieve
S this integration vary widely, the
I ef fects of successful integration
I are rarely disputed and seldomly
I overlooked. The effects cited
I most often are academic perfor-
1 mance and personal happiness.
I They are also frequently men-
Stioned as factors in describing a
| team’s success at game time.
Because this success is so vital
to fan support, Texas A&M
Head Basketball Coach Shelby
I Metcalf said athletes c.re often
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press lateroa 1 their team loses.
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ter ballclub,” he continued, “but
you have to play well to get the
crowd there in the first place.”
But because for every winning
team there is a losing one, the im
portance of dealing with this
alienation is a statistical necessity.
John Heisler, sports informa
tion director at Notre Dame Uni
versity, said the integration prob
lem is related to special privileges
given athletes and can be elimi
nated from the beginning of an
athlete’s collegiate career.
“It’s hard to tell the average
student that athletes really have
problems when all (the non-ath
letes) see the fancy dorms, the
fancy food and all the other spe
cial treatment,” Heisler said. “At
Notre Dame, we view the fact
that we have no athletic dorms as
as plus. Our kids eat the food the
rest of the students eat, study
along with the rest of the stu
dents and live with the rest of the
students. The only difference is
that they play football on Satur
day.
“But Notre Dame is a special
place,” he continued. “When you
look at the size of the school
(6,500 undergraduates), what
makes sense here doesn’t nec
essarily make sense at some of
your bigger schools.”
A more outspoken opponent
of separate athletic living and
dining facilities is Penn State
Head Football Coach Joe Pa
ter no.
“How can you expect 19-year-
old kids to get ready for the real
said. “They aren’t going to f
these privileges when they
out of school, so why should t
world when they’re given so
many special privileges,” Paterno
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“It’s important to get (the ath
letes) in with the rest of the kids,”
he continued. “How can they
learn how to get along in life
when they’re removed from it?”
Penn State’s Assistant Sports
Information Director Bill
Kowalski and Notre Dame’s
Heisler both agreed their schools’
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Buzzer shot lifts
Ags over Owls
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
HOUSTON — The Texas A&M
women’s basketball team wasn’t
alone in Autry Gym during its 70-68
victory over Rice Tuesday night.
Only a blue-and-white striped vi
nyl partition kept an intramural vol
leyball game away from the action
on the court.
Only a late second half rally kept
the Ags from stalling the progress
they’ve shown - in strong showings
against Southwest Conference pow
erhouses Texas, Texas Tech and
Houston.
And only a last second shot, from
the top of the key, by Beth Young
kept A&M from losing to a team it
took for granted.
“We were afraid that this might
happen,” said A&M Coach Lynn
Hickey. “We just weren’t ready to
play. We’ve been emotionally up for
the past three games and we came
out flat.”
So flat, that A&M was repeatedly
out-rebounded and out-hustled.
So flat, that A&M was losing by 16
points with just over seven minutes
remaining in the game.
“Everything (Rice) threw up there
went in,” Hickey said. “They were all
hustling once their leading scorer
got hurt.”
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Jones, who has
shouldered most of the Rice offen
sive load throughout the season,
hurt her ankle with six minutes re
maining in the first half. The Owls
preceded to odtscore the Ags 14-2 in
a run that spanned halftime and
lasted until A&M called timeout,
three minutes into the second half.
‘T’m not surprised at all that they
took Houston into overtime,”
Hickey said. “They’re a scrappy,
well-coached team. If Jenni Edgar
hadn’t been shooting well, it could’ve
been a long night for us.”
With Edgar’s sixth point, scored
with 3:45 left in the first half, she be
came the all-time leading scorer in
the history of women’s basketball at
A&M.
Edgar finished with 18 points and
was joined by Lisa Langston and
A&M’s Jenni Edgar
Michell Tatum in double figures
with 22 and 12 points respectively.
When Young’s floater from the
top of the key went in, A&M re
corded SWC win No. 3 (against five
losses) and victory No. 10 on the sea
son.
But not without considerable ef
fort.
“The key is that we won,” Hickey
said. “We didn’t play well, but we
won the game. A win like this has got
to give you confidence. Maybe we
got help from somebody out there.”
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in which A&M was definitely not
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