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Time Is Money!

Should college athletes get paid to play sports? The answer is YES without a doubt. Sports is one of the main attractions to a school.To play a sport it takes hard work and dedication. Trying to maintain a high gpa with a great representation in sports is not the easiest thing to do. A college doesn’t pick just any person to represent a team, they pick the best!

The effects sports can have on your body can play a huge part in your learning. When having to practice more than twenty hours a week and study a little bit for each of those days that take a huge toll on you! According to a cbs article it explains how the exhaustion from sports increases one’s chance not studying after. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/25157011/pac-12-study-reveals-athletes-too-exhausted-to-study-effectively

The amount of time spent on practicing is so urgent the NCAA created a 20 Hour Rule Document!

http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/20-Hour-Rule-Document.pdf

Nobody can say they know how it feels to have dedication to sports and books if they have never played sports while being a full time student. For me I played soccer, the constant popping my knee out of place and long hours of practice every day, all I could think about was my shower and my bed. When having to work out physically and mentally I found myself wondering which one I should pick between the two!

The way I see it when it comes to sports is the college is the employer and the students are the employees. In order to a business or company to be great they need workers. The employees just don’t need the employers, the employers needs the employees! As hard as it is to live in America I don’t know too many people that work long and and hard for free!

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LETS CHAT UD!

The University of Delaware can be viewed as a racist school based upon the demographics.  With that opinion, the University focuses incredibly on equality. And because equality is urgent, we should all become equally UNCOMFORTABLE! Yes, UNCOMFORTABLE! In general, no one likes to be pushed outside of their comfort zone. But in order to have unity, everyone should respect the emotions and feelings of those around us. I’m glad the new musical Campus Chatter has came to UD, 

Campus Chatter is a new musical at UD and is based upon the emotions expressed by students all over campus. This musical is a collection of stories about transgenderism, hiding behind homosexuality, and even the challenge of dealing with difficult roommates to name a few. This musical allows people to really think about “how well do you know the ones you know.”

Often times you are close to people, whether family or friends, but do you really know what goes on in their mind daily? There are people that put a smile on their face and laugh about things every day, until you get the bad news that they have committed suicide. Perhaps you see people on campus that are members of prominent clubs or the athletic team that appear to have the ability of attracting anyone of the opposite sex; yet not knowing that they are hiding behind who they really are; moreover, they fear how they would be treated if they came “out”. For them, the question becomes “How do I fit in?” or “How do I not feel like the dirt we all walk upon”

Change doesn’t just happen in the blink of an eye. It takes time. It’s time for the University of Delaware to stop looking at how others view us, and start focusing on how we view ourselves; as one big family.