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Read the passage again and work with your partner to summarize the main idea of this article. You may use the following two questions as clues. Why is auditing so popular on campus? What kind of subjects attract students most to audit? And why? * * Players tackle injustice Issue.1052 April 30, 2014 Audits offer extra lessons Group Discussion Detailed Study Players tackle injustice General Questions Background Information Learn more about US college sport on College Sports in America Student athletes and their families have always known it is not easy balancing the demands of performing at a high level in collegiate sports while keeping up with one’s grades. To begin with, student athletes must meet some NCAA requirements to participate in sports and/or an athletics scholarship during their first year: Skimming and scanning: Find the answers to the following quesitons as quickly as possible. Instruction 1.What do we know about college football in US aaccording to a 2012 poll ? 2. Why do many student athletes think they are being exploited? Schools give a big chunk to coaches, while the student athletes get just a small slice of the pie – scholarships to cover their tuition and a shot at becoming professional players. General Questions According to a 2012 poll, in terms of audience numbers, college football has caught up with baseball to become the nation’s second most popular sport, Fox News reported. 3.Why did football playwers from Northwestern University file a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athlete Association (NCAA? 4.What does the CNN report say about the lawsuit? In order to keep college sports “pure” and protect student players from commercial exploitation, the NCAA rules that college players are amateurs and therefore should only be paid in the form of tuition, books, boarding and related fees. General Questions The lawsuit called NCAA a “ cartel” and said it should not put a limit on how much student players