b'College Athletes and NCAA RegulationsKaleb Artaz LarrySponsor: Dr. Lavonna Lovern, Department of Interdisciplinary StudiesThe NCAA was formed in 1906, it was previously known as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (ICAA) of the United States, its goal was to guide students to the best possible institutions for their skillsets. Shortly after the ICAA organization was formed, universities started to give incentives for athletic participation by offering tuition discounts in hopes of persuading students to attend their schools.In 1952, scholarships for athletics became legal. Additionally, the later National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) implemented policies to protect students from exploitation, and to determine the manner and amount of money that could be given.As a result, the NCAA created regulations that it claimed were best for student athletes.Critics of these regulations, however, claim that they keep amateur athletes from achieving the financial security necessary to complete their education while funneling all profits to the NCAA. This paper will examine the NCAA regulations and their impact on student athletes.Issues of student athlete poverty and NCAA profits will be examined in order to determine the legitimacy of these regulations.Finally, the paper will examine the recent move by the NCAA to allow student athletes to profit from the use of their images and how this fails to assist athletes that are not deemed stars.Political ScienceHitler in the Heart of DixieJenna Nicole TillmanSponsor: Dr. Micheal Baun, Department of Political ScienceThe research topic is the intersection of Jim Crow and Nazism.The research method is the Comparative Method Most Similar research design comparing the similarities between the Jim Crow laws and Nazism. By isolating the similarities, it will lead to why each system had different outcomes.There is not much research on this topic, so the hope is this event will generate interest in promoting more research on this topic and field of study. Both these systems rob minority groups of fundamental civil rights. It is essential to bring to light the comparison between the two and how Hitler used Americans racist system as a model to justify mass genocide. 81'