Senior Evan Schwartz, a Hatchet columnist, urges colleges and universities to pay their athletes.
The GW Colonials haven’t sniffed the NCAA Tournament since 2007. Forget fixing Gelman or building residence halls, why don’t we pay our players?
College basketball is a huge moneymaker for Division I schools, and a school like GW could more than afford to pay its hoopsters a salary.
Yes, student athletes get scholarships that tend to manifest themselves in free housing and a free education, worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, but they deserve more.