Than a scholarship to attend class. Their coach, pat fitzgerald, says thats compensation enough for student athletes. Im a football coach, im a teacher, im an educator, alright . This isnt what i signed up to be, i signed up to help these guys develop to be the best they can be, not to be an employer. But in january, his players demanded to be considered employees, becoming the First College team to seek a union. Guys come in here and bash all day, then then theyre injured 5 years down the road and they get nothing. Right now, athletes dont receive longterm medical care, and cant collect a paycheck or form a union. The National Collegiate Athletic Association or ncaa sets the rules for College Sports. But those rules could soon be overturned. Fault lines investigates the multibilliondollar business of College Football, the players who produce that wealth, and their demands for a more equitable game. I just hope the ncaa does understand that some things do need to change. The first thin
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
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Pelley good evening. The crisis in iraq is worsening by the minute, and today, praub, who met with his National Security team, ordered the u. S. Military it to begininn humanitarian aid. U. S. Airstrikes on the Islamic Militant group known as isis could be next. Isis continues to seize territory in iraq and syria with the goal of creating an islamic state. In recent days, its fighters have been sweeping through the north of iraq, driving minority christians and yazidis from their homes. Many yazidis are now surrounded on a mountaintop without food and water. Today, the white house said the situation is nearing a catastrophe. David martin is at the pentagon tonight with the latest. David. Reporter scott a pentagon official said just a short time ago the effort has begun. Transport planes loaded with palettes of food and water have taken off bound for iraq and american warplanes are poised to strike if the president gives the order. The airdrops are designed to rescue thousands of civili
Than a scholarship to attend class. Their coach, pat fitzgerald, says thats compensation enough for student athletes. Im a football coach, im a teacher, im an educator, alright . This isnt what i signed up to be, i signed up to help these guys develop to be the best they can be, not to be an employer. But in january, his players demanded to be considered employees, becoming the First College team to seek a union. Guys come in here and bash all day, then then theyre injured 5 years down the road and they get nothing. Right now, athletes dont receive longterm medical care, and cant collect a paycheck or form a union. The National Collegiate Athletic Association or ncaa sets the rules for College Sports. But those rules could soon be overturned. Fault lines investigates the multibilliondollar business of College Football, the players who produce that wealth, and their demands for a more equitable game. I just hope the ncaa does understand that some things do need to change. The first thin