As a collegiate athlete, the NCAA has a direct effect on my life. It tells me, with respect to athletics, what I can and cannot do. If I were a division one athlete, the limitations would be far greater. I could not, for example, work certain jobs, or accept money for being good at what I do. When something has this much say over a part of my life, I take notice at what they do, and I feel that the NCAA is not serving its purpose.
In what historians have declared the first American intercollegiate contest, Yale took on Harvard in a boating race. …
