You may have read the Stanford Magazine article last summer/Fall(?) re: the University's perspective on the Northwestern NLRB situation and the ramifications of paying players, etc. That article suggested that the institution did not have a full-formed view on the matter.
Today, I was attending a Stanford function on campus for alumni volunteers. There was a panel with Dean (of Admissions) Richard Shaw, Bernard Muir, and a couple of other campus leaders. The President of the Alumni Association was moderating. A woman asked what would be wrong with Stanford student-athletes being "employees".
Muir did his usual song and dance, but the moderator interjected that the faculty run Stanford, and quoted Henessey as joking that a Stanford President is like a caretaker at a cemetery - everyone is beneath him but nobody is listening. The moderator then stated emphatically that the Stanford faculty unequivocably will not countenance running an athletic program in which its participants are "employees."
Today, I was attending a Stanford function on campus for alumni volunteers. There was a panel with Dean (of Admissions) Richard Shaw, Bernard Muir, and a couple of other campus leaders. The President of the Alumni Association was moderating. A woman asked what would be wrong with Stanford student-athletes being "employees".
Muir did his usual song and dance, but the moderator interjected that the faculty run Stanford, and quoted Henessey as joking that a Stanford President is like a caretaker at a cemetery - everyone is beneath him but nobody is listening. The moderator then stated emphatically that the Stanford faculty unequivocably will not countenance running an athletic program in which its participants are "employees."
