"It should also serve to warn student-athletes that if they choose to accept benefits from agents or their associates, they risk losing their eligibility for collegiate competition".
Harris, Sean Spence, Travis Benjamin, Marcus Forston and Adewale Ojomo — all of whom were likely starters — must sit out one game and make restitution for accepting benefits after enrolling at the university.
Employers do not have to offer health benefits at all, they do not have to pay the full costs when they do, and workers do not have to accept benefits.
However, a government spokesman said many people do not wish to accept benefits on principle.
To be sure, he makes no causal contribution to those wrongdoings, has no control over their course, and does not accept benefits from them.
But in accepting benefits from his association with the wrongdoers, he may be seen as underwriting those wrongs and joining the class of those properly blamed.
Grateful reciprocity and nonmaleficence advance or protect a benefactor's welfare interests, while respecting use conditions and accepting benefits advance a benefactor's ulterior interests.
The knowledge of the needs of individuals in high-risk areas, as well as the accepted benefits of psychological resilience for both individual and community functioning means that establishing psychological resilience-building strategies seems promising.
As Simmons puts it (1979, p. 129), there is a difference between receiving and accepting benefits, and merely receiving them is not enough to place someone under an obligation.
The university discovered the violations while conducting a different investigation involving players accepting benefits from agents.
