Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
BAR TO FRESHMAN
/. Who LACKS MONEY
viii Not Be Permitted to
Work Way Through His
First Year.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n TEW YORK, March 7.-Dras-
IN tic regulations concerning
/ Y the terms upon which stu
dents will be admitted 10
Notre Dame University and upon
which they will be permitted to
remain in the university viii go
into effect next September, 1t was
learned from an authoritative
source today.
These regulations viii mark one of
the severest and most rigid steps that
any university has yet taken in the
current movement toward placing re-
strictions upon student athletes. While
this manifestly is the aim of the Notre
Dame authorities, the athlete Is not
singled out. Rules that have been de-
cided upon will apply to all students,
without any exception whatever.
When the writer visited Notre Dame
measures which could check evils not
at all peculiar to this university were
being discussed with view to remedy,
and since then he has been in touch
with the situation, which now has de-
veloped into a definite plan of action
This plan may be grouped as follows:
/. Admission Of freshmen. Hereafter
no freshman will be admitted to Notre
Dame who has not in his possession
money to defray the full cost Of tuition
and board.
2. No freshman will be permitted TO
accept any employment whatever
throughout the entire year. He must live
upon his personal means or that OF his
family, and If they are not sufficient TO
defray all his expenses he wiz have TO
leave the institution.
The fact that this viii work hardship
upon many boy ambitious for an edu-
cation is recognized, but 1t is also rec
og1iZed that the boy who plans TO come
to the university essentially for foot ball
or other forms Of competitive athletics
will stay away from Notre Dame. And
evidently this is deemed desirable by
the authorities there. Sinecure Jobs, Of
course, viii disappear.
Heavy Study Course.
It should further be noted that, In
asmuch as all Notre Dame students viii
carry from II to 20 hours work-the
standard Is 15-the faculty feels that all
possible time must be spent at studies.
And above all, it is felt the freshman
should not have his mind diverted and
his time encroached upon by the neces-
sity of earning his living. This, indeed,
Is one of the fundamental reasons for
the elimination Of freshman employ
ment.
3. After a student has become q
sophomore he may accept employment
that will pay only part of his ex-
penses. The precise percentage Of his
expenses that he win be allowed TO
earn will depend first upon his scIoIas-
tic standing and then upon his means.
The poor student-that is, the student
who is poor in scholarship as wen as
IN the matter OF fnanceS-wil simply
be out of luck.
Here, Of course, win be an incentive
for the athlete to pay a great deal of
attention TO his studies. For, even
though he be the main cog In Coach
Rockne's machine, he viii be unable
to work at any job paying an ap-
preciable part of his expenses unless
his class room work Is high.
Just what all this viii mean to Notre
Danes athletic system may not be
said. Tt seems certain that student
athletes there viii be compelled to
face conditions materially less at
tractive than athletes at other col
leges meet. On the other hand, the
rewards Of due and proper attention
to lessons viii unquestionably act - q
spur.
ALREADY the whip or more rigid
scholastic requirements has been felt at
South Bend, as the list of valuable
athletes now on the ineligible list shows
and as the dropping of athletes from
the university has recently shown.
AS to athletic policy, the fact may
be cited that tendency toward home
games VIII be increasingly emphasized.
The longest journey which the 1881
Notre Dame eleven will take viii be to
New York and in ever-increasing de-
gree the availability of the splendid
new stadium adjoining Cartier Field
will be utilized