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...seems to make Harvard a defender of "professional" college athletes. If the EGAG does not reverse its ruling, the Ivy League colleges should take joint action, on the Presidential level if necessary. On matters of eligibility, the Ivy League seems far more qualified to pass judgment than the ECAC...
...ECAC had good reasons for being highly suspicious of Kinasewich's Junior A background. The Junior A Leagues in Oanada are used as farm clubs by professional hockey teams. A small number of players are actually paid salaries by the pro teams...
Kinasewich was disqualified by the ECAC because he had accepted subsidies for playing Junior A hockey in Canada four years ago. The ECAC claimed that these subsidies, which amounted to $450 one year and $702 the next made Kinasewich a professional under the rules of the Conference...
...ECAC refuses to recognize this fact. Students in other ECAC colleges on athletic scholarships and those students who compete in the summer in amateur sports are every bit as professional as the ECAC claims Kinasewich is. If the ECAC really wants to restore purity to its house, it has far more serious matters to deal with than Kinasewich. And Kinasewich is only one of the 104 Canadians playing on ECAC teams...
...even playing by the ECAC's rules, it is hard to justify disqualifying Kinasewich SPORTS ILLUSTRATED recently pointed out that most of the other Canadians in the ECAC are "professionals" like Kinasewich, but had lied on eligibility affidavits about their past, Kinasewich's main problem, one might say, is that he is honest and reported his subsidy Unlike some other college "student" athletes, he is also honest about wanting an education; after all, he came to Harvard knowing he might be ineligible in the Ivy League when he had opportunities at other, less particular, schools...