(Quoted without permission)
 
Bylaw B 16.1.7.4
        16        Awards and Benefits
           1      Awards
             7    Expenses to Receive Noninstitutional Awards
               4  Awards expenses from media
                  A student athlete may accept actual and necessary
                  transprtation expenses from a magazine or other
                  media enterprise (e.g., newspaper, radio station,
                  television network) for travel to a particular
                  location (outside a 30 mile radius of the community
                  in which the student athlete's institution is
                  located) in order to have a photograph or film taken
                  or a story written about him or her, but only if the
                  photograph, film, or story is in conjunction with
                  receipt of an established award at that location.
 
Application of Legislation:
        Further to the above, the NCAA legislative services staff has
        determined that expenses that an SA is not permitted to
        receive may not be awarded to SA's relatives or friends.
 
Institution request:
        Waive the normal application of the Expense from media rule in
        this situation because the SA's family had been experiencing
        financial difficulties and the institution hopes the good that
        they have done in sharing their story will not be a financial
        penalty.
 
Action:
        Appeal granted.
 
Special Circumstances:
        The SA sustained a head injury during a hockey contest that
        left him unconscious.  The head coach and the institution's
        physician's assistant performed CPR to revive the SA.  The
        impact the SA sustained resulted in bleeding between the brain
        and skull, and the SA remained in a coma for 4 1/2 days.  The
        SA returned to the ice the following October.  The television
        program Rescue 911 has done a story on the SA that will be
        aired next season.  The SA's family, who participated in the
        taping of the show, would like to be reimbursed for actual
        travel expenses, meals, lodging, and lost-wage expenses.
        Without this reimbursement, the family would suffer a
        financial hardship.
 
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