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Rensselaer Community Signs Banner Supporting Division I Sports Teams and Scholarships
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Martin Benjamin
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Rensselaer’s men and women ice hockey players, along with numerous enthusiastic fans, friends, and members of the university community, have signed a banner supporting the ice hockey teams and Rensselaer’s ability to award athletic grants-in-aid to its Division I student-athletes. The banner was signed at the Houston Field House during the men’s hockey games this weekend versus Yale University and Princeton University.
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Martin Benjamin
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The banner, which reads “Support Puckman, Support 65-1,” encourages the adoption of an amendment that blocks a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) proposal to eliminate the waiver allowing Division III schools to offer athletic grants-in-aid to their student-athletes who play in Division I sports. Rensselaer and the seven other affected Division III institutions that “play up” in a Division I sport submitted the amendment to the NCAA Nov. 1.
Rensselaer delegates to an NCAA convention Jan. 12 — including President Shirley Ann Jackson, Athletic Director Ken Ralph, Associate Athletic Director Kerry Quinn, and Vice President of Student Life Eddie Ade Knowles — will take the signed banner with them to the convention to show the overwhelming support for Amendment 65-1. The adoption of amendment 65-1 would nullify the offending proposal.
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