| Friday, October 4, 2019 |
| Mississippi State course teaches educators skills in grant writing | |
 | When Penny Wallin was a teacher and administrator, she repeatedly was told there was no money for her to help her students. Wallin is now doing something about it by offering a class for teachers on how to write and obtain grants. "I said, no, that is not acceptable, there has to be another way," Wallin said. Wallin, who is an associate professor of educational leadership at Mississippi State University-Meridian, teaches a directed studies graduate course that either allows teachers to apply for a grant or write a research paper. Last month, four teachers from local schools received grants. Teachers from Northeast Elementary School, West Hills Elementary School, Philadelphia High School and Leake County High School received grants totaling $12,000. The teachers received grants in different areas that include dual enrollment, literacy tools for students who are struggling with English and language arts and helping students to become proficient in technology literacy. |
| Congressman Michael Guest Applauds Announcement of NOAA Restore Science Program Funds Awarded to Mississippi State University | |
 | Today, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) applauded the announcement of $15.6M in funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) RESTORE Science Program awarded to Mississippi State University to study trends in living coastal and marine resources and the processes driving these trends. "Mississippi State continues to be a national leader in important and innovative research," Guest said. "NOAA and Mississippi State University have developed a strong partnership, and this project will help shape our understanding of sustainable wildlife management." |
| Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State seeking volunteer docents | |
 | The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University is looking for volunteers. The library is searching for new volunteer docents, who handle much of the library's day-to-day tasks, including welcoming visitors, answering basic questions, starting educational videos, among other tasks. Assistant to the executive director Eddie Rangel said the Grant Library needed more volunteers to augment the approximately 15 regular volunteers the center currently had. "We have a couple of open spots right now that haven't been filled," Rangel said. "Every week we have a couple of spots, maybe two or three that we don't have anyone to come in for. We're always looking for new volunteers to help us fill that role." Rangel said volunteer docents typically take three-hour shifts at the front desk, with the first running from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Sustainability workshop connects producers, school officials | |
 | The Alliance of Sustainable Farms is collaborating with the Mississippi Farm to School Network to connect producers and school food service directors. The two organizations will host a workshop on farm-to-school practices Oct. 17 at Native Son Farm in Tupelo. The field day will highlight the work of the farm's sustainable vegetable production practices and cover topics including school food service needs and how growers can serve the Farm-to-School market. "Schools are interested in locally grown food, and local farmers are eager to grow and sell to them," said Alliance manager Keith Benson. "Everyone wants healthier food, and we want to help facilitate that process." Alliance field day partners and sponsors include the Mississippi State University Extension Service, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Alcorn State University Extension Program, University of Mississippi Transactional Law Clinic, National Center for Appropriate Technology, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, and Mississippi Department of Education. |
| Starkville offers alternatives to short-term rental code amid public pushback | |
 | City leaders introduced a list of alternative options to proposed regulations of short-term rentals properties Thursday before holding a public forum where most people in attendance spoke against the proposal. The current draft of the city's unified development code includes a $300 yearly license to host a "short-term residential rental" in a single-family home. That includes, but isn't limited to, weekend rentals, Mississippi State University game day rentals and listing such property on websites like Airbnb. If a homeowner pays the fee, the proposed code only allows renting a property for up to 30 nights or 10 weekends per year and requires owners to live in the houses they offer for short-term rental. The four alternative policies, available in packets handed out at the forum, offer different numbers and combinations of yearly night limits, license fee amounts, residency requirements and responses to complaints against a rental property. Two alternatives eliminate the rental night limit, and all four reduce the license fee to either $50 or $100. |
| Internet access, increased tax revenue highlighted at Oktibbeha candidate forum | |
| Nine candidates for Oktibbeha County government offices made their cases to a crowd of about 30 at The Mill at MSU Conference Center over breakfast Wednesday morning. Five candidates for supervisor and four for other offices each spent a few minutes discussing their platforms and asking for votes on Nov. 5, when seven offices will be contested. The remaining 10 county officials up for re-election are all running unopposed. Frequent talking points included broadband access in rural areas, the county's economic growth over the past several years and the incoming North Star Industrial Park in north Starkville. The Greater Starkville Development Partnership hosted the forum as one of the two "power breakfasts" in its yearly Blue Ribbon Business Series. Both events are usually "politically or legislatively charged," and the Partnership wanted to provide an opportunity for county residents to meet their candidates in a casual setting, said Paige Watson, the Partnership special events and projects coordinator. |
| Starkville Community Theatre to highlight Mississippi writers Friday | |
| Starkville Community Theatre presents "An Evening Celebrating Mississippi Writers" at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Playhouse on Main in downtown Starkville. The event includes readings by area authors, followed by a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, featuring Cherri Golden and Melanie Tubbs, both of Columbus. Authors John W. Bateman, director of the Starkville Area Arts Council; T.K. Lee, Mississippi University for Women assistant professor of English/creative writing; and writer and artist Laurie Parker, all of Starkville, will read excerpts from their selected works. A panel Q-and-A session follows. Copies of each author's works will be available for purchase before and after the panel. Lee said events such as this are a way to encourage the state's own talent. "(This is) a wonderful way to make Mississippi unique in nurturing writers, especially the exciting new voices," he said. |
| 'Flash drought' worsening across the South | |
 | More than 45 million people across 14 Southern states are now in the midst of what's being called a "flash drought" that's cracking farm soil, drying up ponds and raising the risk of wildfires, scientists said Thursday. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows extreme drought conditions in parts of Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and the Florida panhandle. Lesser drought conditions also have expanded in parts of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The drought accelerated rapidly in September, as record heat combined with little rainfall to worsen the parched conditions, said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center in Nebraska. "Typically we look at drought as being a slow onset, slow-developing type phenomenon compared to other disasters that rapidly happen, so this flash drought term came about," Fuchs said. "The idea is that it's more of a rapidly developing drought situation compared to what we typically see." |
| Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce announces two staff members | |
 | Commissioner Andy Gipson announced two new staff members of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce. Gayle Fortenberry was named Agriculture Workforce Development Coordinator. In this position, Fortenberry will serve as a liaison between MDAC and agriculture industry employers, agricultural education program representatives and potential agricultural employees in high schools, colleges and universities to coordinate the Mississippi Agriculture Workforce Development program. Fortenberry earned her Master's Degree in School Administration and B.S. degrees in Agricultural Communications and Agricultural Education from Mississippi State University. Gipson also named Whit Kendall as Senior Counsel and Legislative Policy Coordinator. He will be responsible for staying apprised on the latest policy issues and working with the legislature on behalf of the department and the commissioner in order to monitor and shape legislation that has an impact on the agency. Kendall earned his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering Technology and Business from MSU. |
| Tate Reeves commits to National Guard funding, accepts Trump endorsement | |
| Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, the Republican candidate for governor, announced he would make a commitment to prioritizing maintenance repairs to National Guard armory units across the state after being briefed from members of the National Guard on different armory repairs. Officials with the Mississippi National Guard presented a $5.4 million funding update to Reeves and U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly, a Republican representing the state's 1st Congressional District. Military officials told the politicians the plan that is now being implemented consists of approximately $2 million from state in bonded funds and $3.4 million from the federal government. Maj. Gen. Janson D. Boyles, the adjutant general of Mississippi, said the Mississippi National Guard receives about $6 million in federal dollars every year, but the organization is limited to spending that money on facilities that only do 100% federal work like Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg. |
| Secretary of State candidates DuPree, Watson speak at forum in Hattiesburg | |
 | William Carey University in Hattiesburg hosted the two candidates for Mississippi Secretary of State in a forum Thursday afternoon. The Democratic nominee, former Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree, and the Republican nominee, State Sen. Michael Watson, had the chance to discuss their positions and answer questions in the Thomas Fine Arts Auditorium at 4 p.m. The general election will be held on Nov. 5. The forum was by the Mississippi Coast Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, William Carey and the Gulf Coast Business Council. "The Secretary of State's Office plays a crucial role in our state in elections, regulation of businesses and administration of public lands, among other functions," said Jane Meynardie, one of The Federalist Society organizers. "This will be a great opportunity for voters to hear directly from the candidates about their plans for this important office." William Carey Provost Dr. Scott Hummel said the university is honored to co-host the forum. |
| Diplomats pushed Ukraine to investigate, dangled Trump visit | |
| Top U.S. diplomats encouraged Ukraine's newly elected president to conduct an investigation linked to Joe Biden's family in return for a high-profile visit with President Donald Trump. It soon escalated into what one diplomat feared was a "crazy" swap that risked vital U.S. military aid. That's according to a cache of text messages released late Thursday by House investigators following a 10-hour interview with one of the diplomats, Kurt Volker , who stepped down as special envoy to Ukraine amid the Democrats' impeachment inquiry. The pages lay out the raw contours of a potential quid-pro-quo exchange -- Trump gets his political investigation of a top Democratic rival in return for granting a favor to Ukraine. |
| Is the 3D rocket boom passing the government by? | |
 | Government programs designed to incubate promising new technologies can't keep pace with the rapid growth of venture-backed space start-ups, says the CEO of Relativity Space, a small launch company that is building 3D printed rockets. Tim Ellis, the 29-year old CEO, gave a hypothetical example: When his Los-Angeles-based firm had just 14 employees a year and a half ago, it would have been eligible to compete for a NASA contract to bring partially-developed technology at small businesses to fruition. But by the time the contract would have been awarded, because of the lengthy government contracting process, Relativity Space had grown to 110 employees with a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. This discrepancy between the speed of government and speed of Silicon Valley means the government could miss out getting in on the ground floor of innovative technologies if the companies are moving too fast for the federal contracting process. |
| AP source: Former higher ed commissioner to lead Ole Miss | |
| An official with firsthand knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press late Thursday that former state Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce will be the next chancellor of the University of Mississippi. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because although trustees voted to approve Boyce's selection in a closed session Thursday, the announcement won't be made until Friday in Oxford, home to the university. Boyce, 61, declined comment to the AP on Thursday night. His choice brings to a close a politically sensitive search for a new leader of Ole Miss after former Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter resigned in January after less than three years on the job at one of Mississippi's two largest universities. |
| $10 million lawsuit filed against Auburn University | |
 | A Valley man and his daughter have filed a $10 million lawsuit against Auburn University claiming that it is fraudulently charging in-state students out-of-state tuition. Jeffrey Prosser and his daughter Brooke Prosser, of Valley but formerly of Georgia, filed the lawsuit. Brook Prosser is claiming that she has qualified for in-state tuition since starting school at the university but has been denied, instead charged out-of-state tuition. In-state tuition at Auburn for undergraduates is $5,746 per semester. Out-of-state tuition is $15,562 per semester. "Auburn University does not comment on pending litigation," said an official statement from the university. "After going through every single process and trying to be a gentleman about this process, I've felt they are in violation of both the laws in Alabama and [the laws in Auburn] and I told them I was going to seek legal process and pursue this to the courts," Jeffrey Prosser told the Opelika-Auburn News. |
| U. of Florida says Donald Trump Jr. event isn't campaign stop | |
 | Party politics? President's son and reelection adviser to get $50,000 from student fees The University of Florida said Wednesday that an event next week featuring President Trump's son and his campaign adviser does not violate rules against using student fees for party politics. Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, an adviser for the president's reelection campaign, are scheduled for a speaking engagement next week, UF announced Tuesday. Wednesday, UF issued a statement saying the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, which is a part of student government, has invited a variety of speakers to campus for 50 years. "This year, the invitation has been extended to Donald Trump, Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle and as with their predecessors, we will welcome them to campus," the statement said. The speakers, who will give a keynote presentation followed by a question-and-answer session Oct. 10 in the University Auditorium, will be paid a combined $50,000. ACCENT speakers are paid with student activity fees, UF's statement said, which are paid by students when they pay their tuition, based on the number of credit hours they take. |
| UGA employee touts settlement in transgender health coverage case | |
 | A transgender University of Georgia employee and his legal team are hailing a lawsuit settlement they hope will encourage employers to expand health care benefits to transgender workers statewide. The UGA worker, who goes by the name Skyler Jay, said he was denied reimbursement for a May 2017 surgery to treat gender dysphoria, described by medical organizations as a conflict between a person's physical or assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies. Under the settlement, transgender employees in the University System are covered for medically necessary expenses. It removes exclusions for sex change services and supplies and drugs for sex change surgeries. The University System does not track how many employees are transgender. The changes took effect Sept. 1, about three weeks before the case was closed. Jay will receive $100,000 in compensatory damages as part of the settlement. |
| Rep. Will Hurd returns to Texas A&M to discuss issues facing United States, GOP | |
 | U.S. Rep Will Hurd, R-Helotes, bounded onto an Annenberg Presidential Conference Center stage Wednesday night, and the hundreds of attendees who filled the auditorium to near-capacity leapt to their feet and gave the former Texas A&M student body president a standing ovation. "It's a lot of pressure when you get a standing ovation at the beginning of a speech," Hurd said, to laughs from the crowd. "It is a pleasure to be back in Aggieland -- the place that taught me how to have a servant's heart." Hurd, who announced in early August that he would not seek a fourth term representing the 23rd Congressional District, delivered a talk in which he called for a streamlined path to legal immigration and for "a Marshall Plan for the northern triangle," referring to the Central American nations of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. He said it would be cost-effective for the U.S. and other nations to address crime challenges in those nations, and said that "cutting off aid to these countries is the backwards thing to do." |
| Virgin touts hyperloop technology in visit to U. of Missouri | |
 | At a demonstration Virgin Hyperloop One pod on the Francis Quadrangle, a University of Missouri student was overheard talking with her friends. "Is this actually happening?" she said. "It is happening," Kristen Hammer, business development manager for Virgin, said during an interview when told of the student's comment. "This is really happening. There's a lot of procedures that we have to go through." A Missouri route for the futuristic transportation system would use the Interstate 70 corridor between St. Louis and Kansas City with a stop in Columbia. The trip from one side of the state to the other would take 30 minutes, with a 15-minute trip to either Kansas City or St. Louis from Columbia. The pods would move inside an enclosed, low-pressure tube and be propelled by magnetic levitation and electric propulsion. They would use electricity, but have no direct emissions. "These hyperloop systems are going to take off around the world," said Elizabeth Loboa, dean of the University of Missouri College of Engineering and vice chancellor for strategic partnerships. "This would be the largest innovation in transportation technology in 100 years." MU is the only university campus Virgin Hyperloop One is visiting, Loboa said. |
| Federal-State Partnerships for College Affordability | |
 | In a report released Wednesday, the Institute for College Access and Success proposed a framework for a federal-state partnership to increase college affordability. The report argued that federal funding should go to states to add to overall investment in higher education. But that funding should be contingent on maintenance-of-effort requirements for states, the report said. TICAS also argued the plan should include an automatic stabilizer provision to ensure higher ed funding does not suffer during recessions. And the group said new federal funds should be attached to requirements for states to assess funding inequities for racial and socioeconomic groups, and to develop strategies to address those inequities. |
| College-Crime Reports Are Breaking Records This Year. Blame Years-Ago Abuses by Campus Doctors. | |
 | Higher education's annual federally mandated disclosure of campus crimes has been an especially grim task this year for officials at three universities dealing with the aftermath of sexual-abuse accusations against campus physicians. The federal campus-crime-reporting law known as the Clery Act requires colleges that receive federal funding to release a compilation of crime statistics each October 1 for the preceding three calendar years. Because the disclosures reflect the date that a crime is reported rather than when it is alleged to have occurred, the universities -- Michigan State, Ohio State, and the University of Southern California -- saw steep surges in reports of abuse, most dating to years-ago incidents. |
| Tensions over Hong Kong unrest flare on US college campuses | |
| As political tensions flare back home, Hong Kong students on U.S. college campuses say they have been ostracized and in some cases threatened by fellow students from mainland China, and they suspect they are being watched from afar by Beijing. Some say they see the hand of the Chinese government working in ways that threaten academic freedom. "Even though many Chinese students are studying right here, sometimes they are all being monitored. They're not really free of their minds and expression in this country," said Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law, a 26-year-old graduate student in Asian studies at Yale University. Law said he was told by a fellow student that other Chinese at the Ivy League school are avoiding contact with him for fear it will be reported back to the Chinese Embassy and they or their families back home will face consequences. |
| How Penn State Is Cutting Greenhouse Emissions In Half -- And Saving Money | |
 | In the struggle to end global warming, one community in central Pennsylvania is having remarkable success. It's growing, with tens of thousands of people, yet its greenhouse emissions have been dropping dramatically. Perhaps most amazing: Those reductions have paid for themselves. This is not your typical town -- it's Penn State University. But in many ways, it's just like any other town or small city. "We've got 600 major buildings here, over 22 million square feet," says Rob Cooper, Penn State's senior director of engineering and energy. Like most U.S. cities, this enterprise runs largely on fossil fuels, releasing hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide every year. The planet-warming gas comes from the steam plants, from power stations far away that supply electricity, from the cars that people drive to campus and from aircraft that faculty members take to conferences. Penn State has calculated those emissions, year by year, over the past 25 years and laid them out on a graph. It tells a startling -- and hopeful -- story. |
| To test or not to test | |
| Angela Farmer, an assistant clinical professor in Mississippi State University's Shackouls Honors College, writes: For the thousands of students in the United States perched upon their senior year in high school, the upcoming foray into the unknown matrix of college applications is a powerful inducer of stress. Where to apply geographically, what to study, and what types of evaluation tools will be used to evaluate their candidacy are among the top concerns. While those may seem as age old considerations, the truth is that the 21st century has come to reveal a wide berth in the application models and acceptance rubrics used at universities across the nation. According to PrepScholar's Sept. 15, 2019 article by Rebecca Safier, more and more schools are de-emphasizing standardized testing models like the SAT and ACT, replacing them with a rubric they consider more reflective of a student's composite aptitude. There are actually top-tier colleges and research universities which have adopted test flexible, test optional, or even test blind approaches to college admissions. |
SPORTS
| Bulldogs cleaning things up during bye week | |
| Mississippi State is spending its off week focusing on what went wrong last week. After winning their Southeastern Conference opener against Kentucky, the Bulldogs (3-2, 1-1 SEC) were blown out 56-23 at No. 7 Auburn on Saturday. Mississippi State fell behind by three touchdowns in the first six minutes and never recovered. Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead spoke on the plan for this week at practice and what needs to be corrected before the Bulldogs return to action Oct. 12 at Tennessee. "It's like any week," Moorhead said. "Whether you win or lose, you're working on fixing things that went wrong and you continue to emphasize the things that went well. I watched the game tape with offense, defense and special teams. What stood out was falling into a 21-0 hole and that combination of things." |
| 'Complete shock': Jordan Danberry describes moment she received extra year of eligibility | |
 | Jordan Danberry has heard the cacophonous clanging of cowbells many times in her life. Never had they sounded as sweet as they did on Aug. 20. Classes at Mississippi State were set to start the next day. Danberry graduated with a degree in business economics last December and started working on her Master of Business Administration in January. She was ready to begin another full semester in Starkville. Danberry, MSU's third-leading scorer last season, knew it was possible she wouldn't be juggling basketball with her studies for the first time in years. When the Bulldogs lost to Oregon in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Tournament, Danberry figured she might've played her final game. She returned to Starkville for summer classes. She had her future beyond basketball in mind, but she held out hope that her career wasn't truly over. MSU's compliance office submitted a waiver asking for another year of eligibility for Danberry shortly after the defeat to the Ducks. "Of course I was feeling hurt and disappointed that night, but I always knew in the back of my head that there was a possibility that I could come back," Danberry said. |
| Mississippi State women's basketball: Injury update on Chloe Bibby, Promise Taylor | |
| Two potential Mississippi State starters are on the mend a month before the season starts. Junior Chloe Bibby and redshirt sophomore Promise Taylor are both working their way back from injuries sustained earlier this year. Bibby tore her left ACL in January. Head coach Vic Schaefer said during a press conference Thursday that Bibby was cleared for full-contact this week. It's been roughly eight months since her surgery. "That kid is a warrior," Schaefer said. "She worked really hard all summer to get herself in great shape. When you have an injury like that, our doctors did a great job. Now comes the mental piece. Some days are better than others when it comes to how that thing feels, but she's working really hard and looks really good." Bibby started 18 games for Schaefer last season before going down against South Carolina in State's fifth SEC game. She was averaging 11.9 points per game while making a team-high 45% of her 3-point attempts. |
| Wildlife Extravaganza faces uphill battle as bigger event planned for fairgrounds in 2020 | |
| In the wake of controversy that crippled the once popular Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza, a new and larger wildlife and agriculture exposition is scheduled to take place in 2020 at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds. The event will focus on conservation, agriculture, hunting, fishing and youth involvement in the outdoors. "We have an idea of some things that will be there, but we're in the early stages," said Don Brazil, CEO of the Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Foundation. "We just learned we're getting this opportunity to have the fairgrounds and the date. We gave them an idea of what we wanted to do, and the fairground commission voted to give us that opportunity." The event, which has not been named yet, will include a variety of vendors, an exhibition of agriculture, livestock and forestry equipment, educational seminars, property management demonstrations, youth activities and more. Brazil said adding the agricultural aspect to a wildlife expo is a good mix because both involve conservation. |
| In SEC, second-year stumbles often indicate fates of coaches | |
 | Dan Mullen encountered modest expectations entering his second season at Mississippi State. Media picked the Bulldogs to finish fifth in what was then a six-team SEC West. His roster didn't have many ballyhooed recruits or future NFL stars. The Bulldogs had gone 5-7 in Mullen's rookie season, their eighth losing season in a nine-year span. Mississippi State took off the following season, finishing 9-4 in 2010 for the program's best mark since 1999. Running back Vick Ballard, quarterback Chris Relf and linebacker Chris White -- former three-star signees -- led the surge. A coach's first two seasons, especially in the SEC, often indicate what is to come. In Mullen's case, his second season sparked a nine-year tenure that became Mississippi State's best era in program history. Conversely, several SEC coaches' failed tenures in recent history began with back-to-back losing seasons. Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt faces the possibility of starting his tenure with consecutive losing seasons. |
| Move over Georgia Tech, Georgia football is competing in engineering | |
| When Nakobe Dean was being recruited to Georgia, he met all sorts of important people. There was Kirby Smart, of course, the Bulldogs' head coach. And there was linebackers coach Glenn Schumann, who would be his position coach. There were also all the other linebackers on Georgia's team, as well as defensive coordinator Dan Lanning, sports-medicine director Ron Courson and strength-and-conditioning director Scott Sinclair. But the most important meeting for Dean, which clinched it for the nation's top-rated linebacker prospect, was with Prof. David Gattie. Gattie teaches in UGA's College of Engineering. Above all else, Dean wants to be an engineer. Whether he would sign with the Bulldogs hinged on how that initial meeting with Gattie went during Dean's official visit. Gattie remembers it well. |
| U.S. congressman to propose college athlete payment bill | |
| The country's largest state has thrown its legislative weight behind letting college athletes profit from their status -- and now more than a dozen states and Congress may follow California's lead. The spreading movement adds to the mounting pressure on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to improve its treatment of big-time college athletes. U.S. representative Anthony Gonzalez, a Republican from Ohio, announced a plan to introduce a federal bill similar to the California legislation on the House floor, which could alter how the NCAA responds to the California law. The association said in May that players in California -- including in the Pac-12, arguably the most successful Division I conference in the nation -- would be disqualified from competition if they receive compensation for their name, image and likeness, as the state law now permits. "The current California law is not workable due to its state-by-state approach," Gonzalez said in a statement. "We need one national solution that provides safeguards for college athletes while ensuring they are able to receive income off their name, image and likeness." |
| NCAA president Mark Emmert says Fair Play to Pay Act turns student-athletes into employees | |
| There is a choice every high school senior who plays sports should have to make, says NCAA president Mark Emmert. They can choose to be a college athlete. Or they can choose to be a professional. There is no room for both or the waters turn murky and "for all intents and purposes, athletes become employees of the schools," Emmert said. "This is just a new form of professionalism and a different way of converting students into employees," Emmert said. "(They may be) paid in a fashion different than a paycheck, but that doesn't make them not paid." In an exclusive 30-minute interview with IndyStar on Thursday, Emmert talked about the aftermath of the Fair Pay to Play Act and what it could mean for the Indianapolis-based NCAA. |
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