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Athletes receive preferential treatment on campus
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More and more athletes are distancing themselves from us non-athletic students. Many of them claim to not have any more opportunities than the rest of us, but this is not true. Not only do they have a comfortable computer lab and study area, but they also receive special help from tutors.
Recently, in one of my communication courses (I won’t get specific so as to protect the identity of the professor) the athletes in the class were given their own tutoring session the morning of our last test.
The session was held in the communication lounge where many of us went to study that morning. Upon our arrival we were turned away and told to go somewhere else by the tutor because the session was reserved just for athletes. This of course bothered us. It was clearly discrimination based on the fact we are not part of the athletic program. Deciding to just brush this insult off, we relocated and studied in a different area.
After the test, a male basketball player told us that the test was a piece of cake because the tutor went over the test questions with them prior to the test.
This was an outrage. I believe that for this reason, those of us non-athletes were asked to remove ourselves from their tutoring session.
To clarify even more, there was a study session set up for us the week before the test and it turns out we had the same tutor as the athletes. The only difference in the study sessions was that the athletes were given test questions and answers and we were not.
I am very interested to see how their grades on all the tests we’ve taken this semester differ from ours.
If all of their “tutoring” sessions have been like this last one, I guarantee you that their test scores are dramatically higher than those of us not given the answers.
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-Tana Schlepp is majoring in Communication