GHOST LAID

Undoubtedly the controversy waged this week over football players and the payment of tutoring school bills has been exaggerated far out of its natural proportion. More arguing over whether the H.A.A. is at present paying the bills is motivated simply by vindictiveness or love of scandal. The facts are these: the H.A.A. has in the past indirectly rewarded with free tickets the tutoring schools for tutoring athletes; this practice has now been stopped.

For the rest, football players have just as much right to attend tutoring schools as any other undergraduates. If they can pay their bills, all well and good; but certainly the H.A.A. should not pay the bills for them. If the tutoring schools individually wish to give free tutoring to athletes, as well as to other undergraduates, that is their own privilege.

Further, if an athlete's grades are low, the H.A.A. and the coaching staff are certainly obliged to recommend some form of tutoring. If tutoring schools will do this free for athletes and others no criticism can be levelled, but the Athletic Association must not agree to furnish financial aid. If a tutoring school giving free reviews telephones the H.A.A. to find out the financial status of a particular player, the necessary information should be given out, even as the Dean's office does.