The Ithacan

Accuracy • Independence • Integrity

Sports writers are the ones responsible for documenting the history of athletic competition. So while we scribes are documenting the history of others, who will be preserving our history — the history of sports journalists?

Athletes dedicate 20 to 40 hours per week to sports. In return, they receive a scholarship, which is up for yearly renewal at the coach’s behest. This absolutely binds athletes for fear that their aid might be dropped — even though coaches can and have backed out of contracts for opportunities at better schools, without…

More than 1,115 Ithaca College students participate in 38 different club sports on campus — which translates into almost 17 percent of the student population.