Oregon Student Newspaper on Strike

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There is a national crisis in Division One Athletics. My focus is on the Wall “Streetization” of the NCAA, profit over graduating student athletes. I have created a website a launching a national dive to get Congress to enact what is on my website.
It’s well past time for Division One Athletics to be outsourced to the professional ranks, and form a National Student Athlete Union to protect these young Americans from the quest of profits over educating.
Enclosed in the website is a very large excel spreadsheet comparing 2007 and 2008 graduation rates (awful!). In addition, there are communications to the NCAA President.
Feel free to contact me on my private cell listed in this communication.
URL: www.d1shame.com

Steve Lively of GA 11:05AM March 09, 2009

There is a national crisis in Division One Athletics. My focus is on the Wall “Streetization” of the NCAA, profit over graduating student athletes. I have created a website a launching a national dive to get Congress to enact what is on my website.
It’s well past time for Division One Athletics to be outsourced to the professional ranks, and form a National Student Athlete Union to protect these young Americans from the quest of profits over educating.
Enclosed in the website is a very large excel spreadsheet comparing 2007 and 2008 graduation rates (awful!). In addition, there are communications to the NCAA President.
Feel free to contact me on my private cell listed in this communication.

Steve Lively of GA 11:03AM March 09, 2009

Many college newspapers are actually independent from the school and operate as self-supporting businesses. In this case, the Oregon Daily Emerald is funded solely through ad sales and a bulk subscription paid for by the student government. However, the student government has no oversight control over the newspaper. So, the Oregon Daily Emerald is very much a corporation and not an entity of the University. Therefore, the students' concerns over editorial independence and other conflicts of interest raised are entirely valid. If someone has different information, please feel free to correct me.

Elliott A of FL 3:55PM March 05, 2009