Taking the guided tour

Among all of the other issues to which it must attend, the NCAA must now play babysitter. The Stetson University athletics department and the University of Louisiana at Monroe athletics department were both placed on probation earlier this week for unethical practices regarding their recruitment of athletes.\nSex, drugs and alcohol should have no place in the recruiting of athletes for college sports programs. But time and time again, universities across the country continue to try and use "hostesses" to persuade talented athletes to join their programs by trying to show them a good time. We applaud the NCAA for keeping tabs on athletic departments throughout the country and making sure recruiting processes focus more on the quality of the program rather than the quality of the parties and girls surrounding the athletes. But this shouldn't be the NCAA's job -- colleges shouldn't have these programs in the first place. If problems are this rampant and seemingly inevitable, find another way to woo the next year's crop of players. \nThe NCAA even made changes to their code of ethics abolishing the hostess programs, but apparently certain athletic departments haven't taken the hint.\nWhile great athletics programs attract other perspective students, colleges should restructure their recruitment efforts and steer away from providing guides to "service" them while they visit the campus.\nGranted, no campus is void of beer, pot and sex. But how often do we see the admissions office bringing kegs and eggs to a college fair?\nPerhaps if the athletes aren't attracted to an athletics program, university money should be spent on selling the program instead of boozing up the athletes and finding them their own personal tour guide to "show them around campus"