...on partial scholarships are able to work, but full scholarship athletes weren't. Perhaps it was influenced by Bridget Niland, a feisty law student from the University of Buffalo, who wouldn't take no for an answer. When the Division I...

...1998 that allows athletes to work," said Kenneth Shaw of Syracuse, head of the 15-member board of directors. Bridget Niland, a former distance runner and head of the student-athlete advisory committee, argued forcefully on the convention...

...of athletes and a determination by schools to begin trusting one another not to break the rules. At the urging of Bridget Niland of the student-athlete advisory committee, schools agreed to let partial qualifiers who get their degrees in four...