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Purdue bans campus bets on Boilermaker sports, as legalized gambling takes hold
Not sure how you go about enforcing this, but an interesting stance nonetheless.
WEST LAFAYETTE — A ban on sports wagering on Purdue teams will be in place for students, staff, faculty and contractors in time for Purdue’s football game Oct. 19 against Iowa, after Purdue trustees agreed on a policy thought to be just the second of its kind in the nation.
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Trustee Mike Berghoff said campus leaders weren’t comfortable with the idea that the campus community could now legally bet on student-athletes in their classrooms, residence halls and dining halls.
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Purdue had little to work with, by way of templates for campus regulations on sports gambling on the home team. No schools in Indiana have a sports gambling policy. No other Big Ten Conference schools have, either.
Saint Joseph’s University — a private school in Philadelphia that has 20 men’s and women’s teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference — put a policy on sports wagering in its student handbook in late September. If it wasn’t the first of its kind, it was at least among the earliest.
Not sure how you go about enforcing this, but an interesting stance nonetheless.
