Knight when the networks decided they needed a midweek game. Now it depends on what conference youre in, how many days of school you missed. You can keep defending it. I would work on changing it. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, for this hearing. I thank the gentleman. Im going to thank the witnesses. A lot of expertise, real knowledge, appreciate everything you had to offer. Quite a diversity and experiences and positions here. Somebody who was a toplevel College Athlete and then went on to play in the nfl has very strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently, mr. Eilers, that weve got problems out there as mr. Miller, again very passionately, pointed out that needed to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the actions of a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board who suggested that these athletes are employees and, therefore, could, if they chose, vote to join a union. And so we explored some of the possible down
Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prevent serious injuries and avoidable deaths, and they are asking to prohibit the punishment of College Athletes that have not xhited a crime. Is in any one on that list thats unreasonable . Is there any piece of that that your institution would say, no, im awfully sorry, we cant do that. Or let me phrase it positively. Would you each be willing to lead an effort in your respective conferences to see to it that your fellow member institutions say, absolutely, guys. You are absolutely right. Were go
Enough money, so they didnt have it. And yet theyve got this huge football field, you know . So i guess my question is how do we encourage, not only encourage the students to get interested in lieu of an active Human Exploration Program beyond low earth orbit, how do we bring that apollolike interest in s. T. E. M. That apollo generated kind of on autopilot, basically . You know, it just happened because everybody was interested in the program. Young students wanted to get involved in engineering and science and math. We dont have that, you know, at this time, at least not that im aware of. So how do we, how do we get them involved or interested in pursuing those things with a visibility that they see with the sports on tv and some of the other aspects of our society that arent, you know, that are more visible than the Space Program . So ill, ill start to answer that. I think theres two halves to the equation. I think one of the keys in getting more kids interested in the s. T. E. M. F
Students trying to get into college. Analysts presented studies affecting black and hispanic students including access to Student Loans and the overall effectiveness of college ratings. This is two hours, 35 minutes. The paper i am going to talk about this morning is called the color of student debt is coauthored with robert and jason. This is about student debt. Remember that more than one out of two of them have taken out a loan in order to do so. That is a significant change in the history of this country and it means something. It means the College Opportunity and tales today. In particular, i think its notable that borrowing today is no longer a choice. If one wants to attend college today and particularly of one wants to intend attend college in a low, moderate, or middle income family, its absolutely a necessity now that one borrows and thats a major change over time. Total borrowing has grown by more than 10 in the last year alone and we are hearing numbers about trillions in t