What is an "Extra Benefit?"
April 13, 2006 03:21 PM | General
The NCAA defines an extra benefit as any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institutions athletics interest ("booster/donor") to provide a student-athlete (or a student-athlete's relative or friend) a benefit that is not generally available to other WVU students and their relative and/or friends. Therefore, please be aware of the following:
A student-athlete cannot accept anything from an employee of WVU or athletic booster/donor (e.g., use of a car, hair cut, clothing, gifts, money, tickets for any kind of entertainment, payment of long distance telephone calls).
A student-athlete cannot accept free or reduced cost room and/or board from any WVU employee or booster/donor of WVU's athletic programs. This includes in on or off campus, in the student-athlete's home city or any other location. This would preclude a student-athlete from "house sitting" without paying rental costs at a comparable rate for similar housing in that locale.
A student-athlete may not accept free or reduced cost storage room for personal belongings for the summer months from any WVU employee or booster/donor of WVU's athletic programs.
A student-athlete cannot accept free or reduced merchandise or services from any merchant unless that free or reduced cost item is also available to the general public.
A student-athlete cannot eat at a restaurant as the guest of an athletic booster/donor or an employee of WVU.
A student-athlete cannot use the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics copy machine, fax machine or make long distance phone calls using departmental equipment or the long distance access code of an employee of WVU or athletic booster/donor.
Members of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics staff or an athletic booster/donor are not permitted to type reports, papers, letters, etc., for a student-athlete.
A student-athlete cannot receive a special discount, payment arrangement or credit on a purchase (e.g., airline ticket, clothing), or service (e.g., laundry, dry cleaning) from an employee of WVU or an athletic booster/donor.
A WVU employee or a booster/donor cannot provide a student-athlete with a loan of money, a guarantee of bond, the use of an automobile or the signing or co-signing of a note to arrange a loan, or pay or provide other compensation for work not performed or at unreasonable levels for work performed.
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