The Stanford Undergraduate Senate this week passed a joint resolution to support student-athletes at the school as they move to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
According to The Stanford Daily, the bill intends to aid student-athletes during the integration process into the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which is projected to increase travel time in student-athletes’ busy schedules. UGS co-chair Diego Kagurabadza highlighted the bill’s intention to have the university reassess their current student-athlete accommodations in light of the switch to the ACC. The bill also suggests that the University implement priority course enrollment for student-athletes.
“Student-athletes make up about 12 percent of the undergraduate population […] so we should obviously take these concerns very seriously,” Kagurabadza told the Daily.
The main criticism of the bill was its vagueness, but Kagurabadza said that was intentional.
“I think there should be room for quite some movement within these proposals because Stanford as an institution will push back and have its own idea about what’s necessary. And, I think that we need to be reasonable in our proposals,” Kagurabadza said.
