By: Stewart Hall
There is much controversy over students athletes. Some people are angry that they are treated specially and get academic help and easy classes yet they get the same degree as everyone else. Others argue that the athletes help to bring in much of the school's revenue. Since athletes are already of a different class than the usual university student, it might make sense to transform student athletes to just athletes.
The biggest issues surrounding the treatment of student athletes are whether they should be paid and whether they should be treated better than other students, academically. It seems that if athletes were not students, all of these problems would be solved. They would be getting fairly paid for their service to the university and they would not be treated better than regular students when it comes to academics. One may argue that the athletes still want degrees; however, it is probably not necessary for a college athlete to get a degree as well. The athletes could play as employees of the school and not students as long as the school wanted them or until they were given a spot as a professional. If they never got a spot, then they could get their degree at the school and stop playing their sport so that they wouldn't have to be treated specially and could study and learn as well as every other student.
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