Money

$9,000 US Dollars. This surprisingly big amount of money may mean a lot of different things to different people in different countries living in different conditions. They mean the amount of money that is needed to sustain the live of a family of six in Africa for almost two months. Instead for us, it means the costs of tuition of our school one semester. For some people, it is also the amount of money your parents earn every month. Now you know their importance, but if you add another zero, it becomes $90,000 US Dollars, a really significant amount of money. They now represent ten times of their worth before, but to ‘certain people’, they are the amount of money they earn in one season, four months. These ‘certain people’, are college athletes. Many of them earn more money than our parents in two months, maybe even half a year. These students are getting paid this enormous amount of money to throw a ball around, and those 90,000 dollars come from our tuition, which is definitely unfair and not supposed to happen. Today, I will address the problem of fairness. Secondly, why shouldn’t these athletes get paid, and lastly, why these athletes get payment from the school.
The definition of the word ‘fair’ varies. In dictionaries, it says to be in accordance with rules or standards. What some of us believe is to not have what we want, but what we need. That is not what that is happening with most colleges in the US now. According to the Colorado institute of Human Activities, you can see that a high percentage of 38% of the students get into Ivy – league schools because they can throw a ball better than others. On the other hand, the coaches and television stations are making millions of dollars off of college sports, but it’s against NCAA rules for student-athletes to accept any type of cash payment beyond that of a university scholarship. These spots in school for the students in the US in most Ivy – league schools are taken by athletes, not people who actually spent...