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35 Ind. L. Rev. 851 (2001-2002)
Responding to the Perversion of In Loco Parentis: Using a Nonprofit Organization to Support Student-Athletes

handle is hein.journals/indilr35 and id is 865 raw text is: Indiana Law Review

Volume 35                     2002                     Number 3
ARTICLES
RESPONDING TO THE PERVERSION OF IN LOCO PARENTIS:
USING A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION TO
SUPPORT STUDENT-ATHLETES
W. BURLE'TrE CARTER'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction  ................................................. 852
1. The Early Relationships Between Colleges and Universities
and  Their Students  ..................................... 855 •
A.  In the Place of a Parent ..... .......................... 855
B.  The Three-Legged Stool  ................................. 859
C. Using the In Loco Parentis Doctrine to Understand the
Emergence of Campus Athletics Regulation .............. 859
1.  Raising up Gentleman Amateurs  ....................... 862
2. Preserving the Institution as a Place of Education .......... 865
3.  Concerns for Student Safety? .......................... 870
D. Countervailing Concerns: The Perceived Financial
Value of Athletics  ................................... 872
E.  Exercising  Control .................................... 873
F. The Means: Institutional Control and Eligibility ............. 876
II. The Death Knell for In Loco Parentis .......................... 879
A.  The General Student Body  ............................... 879
B. Student-Athletes: On the Fringes of the Revolution ........... 882
C. Institutional Bifurcation as the Reason Why Student-Athletes
Did Not Gain an Expansion of Rights ................... 882
1. The Insecure Career Status of Coaches .................. 884
2. The End of General Faculty Involvement in Athletics ....... 884
3. Radio, Television, and Media Attention ................. 885
4. The Ceding of Power over Athletics to National and
Regional Bodies  ................................. 885
• Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School. B.A., Agnes Scott
College; J.D., Harvard Law School. I thank the National Collegiate Athletic Association for
providing me access to its library and thereby to many of the documents cited within this piece.
I also thank the editors of the Indiana Law Review for their excellent assistance in bringing this
Article to publication.

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