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Should Student-Athletes Get Financial Breaks?

Posted by Ron Johnston on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 @ 05:03 PM

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Today's opinion piece on athletic scholarships in the Winston-Salem Journal pointed out that that North Carolina taxpayers are subsidizing tuition of out-of-state athlete students.

How? By categorizing them as in-state students if they're on full-ride athletic scholarships. It's been so since 2005, when state senate leaders slipped this provision into the budget.

Foundations paying for athletic scholarships are pleased to save the extra tuition - saying it increases the number of scholarships they can fund.

Other critics don't like it, calling it a "pilferage of state taxpayers."

What do you think?

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