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SCAZZERO | Athletes and Eating Disorders
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Columnist Sophia Scazzero, a member of Cornell’s gymnastics team, opens up on eating disorders and other pressures that plague college athletes.
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SCAZZERO | Paying Our Athletes
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By SOPHIA SCAZZERO
College football and basketball are huge spectator sports. Every year, hundreds of thousands of fans watch the Rose Bowl or participate in brackets for March Madness with the same, if not higher amount of enthusiasm than for professional sports. Teams certainly make a name for themselves when they are doing well, drawing attention with star players or playoff runs and bringing in masses of television viewers. So if college sports are so huge and draw in that big of a following, that begs the question: should collegiate athletes be treated like pros and compensated for their hard work? This is a tricky argument to make because of the understanding that student athletes are not just there for the sport, but to get an education, separating them from pro athletes who are just that — athletes.