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Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association April 26,1989, Volume 26 Number 17 Council approves concept of certification program The NCAA Council has author- tory by the membership at the tion would result, and the possibility That proposal will eliminate the ; lzed Executive Director Richard 11. special NCAA Convention in June 01 reprimands. sanctions or other partial qualilicr under Bylaw 14.3 Schultz to continue developing the 1985. penalties could be part of the pro- cffcctivc August I, 1990, unless some concept of a certification and peer- That study is designed to be an gram. other action is taken at the January review procedure for intercollegiate institutional review of the athletics Schultz told the Council that he 1990 Convention. athletics programs. program, including institutional pur- envisions the procedure addressing After hearing differing views ex- Meeting April 17-19 in Kansas pose and athletics philosophy, the such matters as graduation rates, prcsscd by the Presidents Commis- City, Missouri, the Council dis- chief executive officer’s authority in special admissions, progress toward sion, the Academic Requirements cussed the concept of such a pro- personnel and financial affairs, ath- graduation, and the conduct of Committee, and the Committee on gram and agreed to review in its letics organization and administra- coaches and athletes. “An institution Financial Aid and Amateurism, the August meeting the legislation that tion, finances, personnel, sports would be compared against itself, Council voted to establish a Council would be necessary to implement it. programs, recruiting policies, servi- not against other schools,“’ he said. subcommittee to consult with those The NCAA Presidents Commis- ces for student-athletes, and student- He said a small committee may three groups and attempt to present sion, in its spring meeting earlier athlete profiles. be formed to assist in developing a consensus recommendation to the this month, also agreed that Schultz The ingredients of the self-study the details of the legislation that will Council in August. should continue to develop such a might have to be expanded some- be prepared for the Council’s August -The Presidents Commission, in program. what, Schultz told the Council. His meeting. its early April meeting, favored an Schultz’s proposal, which he proposal envisions a panel of indi- Proposal 42 amendment to the legislation to terms “a concept for total integrity viduals not associated with the in- A committee also will play a part sustain the basic intent of Proposal in athletics,” would have its base in stitution serving as a peer-review in any eventual action the Council 42 but to permit a certain category the institutional self-study of athlet- panel to analyze the institution’s takes regarding Proposal No. 42 as of nonqualifiers to receive need- its programs that was made manda- self-study. Some form of certifica- adopted at the 1989 Convention. See Council. page 2 Richard D. Schutlz Roger Martin Executive Committee will review named to championships expansion requests A Commission NCAA Executive CommIttee Commlttee. l The NCAA’s affirmative-action members will deal with a wide vari- Among them will be reports from plan. Roger H. Martin, president of ety of issues when the grolup meets the Basketball Officiating Commit- Atlantic Coast Conference ofii- Moravian College since September May l-2 in Myrtle Beacth, South tee, the Committee on Competitive cials have scheduled a May I recep- 19X6, has been named to the NCAA Carolina. Safeguards and Medical Aspects of tion for the Executive Committee at Presidents Commission. He replaces Recommendations from a dozen Sports, the Special Committee on the Raclisson Resort Hotel at King- Charles E. Glassick. who resigned governing sports committees that Ilndergraciuatrs Who Have Ex- ston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, from the Commission when he deal with championships ,adminis- hausted Institutional t;inancial Aid where the group is meeting. resigned as president of Gettysburg tration await the committee, as does Opportunity, the Walter Byers Post& Highlights of Executive Commit- College to become senior fellow a report on rules changes made by graduate Scholarship Committee, tee actions will appear in the May 3 and vice-president for administra- five sports committees with rules- the Marketing Subcommittee, and issue of The NCAA News, and a tion at the Carnegie Foundation for making reponsibilities that have the Special Planning Committee full summary of the group’s actions the Advancement of Teaching. met since the December 1988 meet- for Drug Testing. will be published later in the month. Martin will serve until January ing of the Exccutivc Committee. Executive Committee members 1992 and will be ineligible for re- Among sports committee recom will receive Information on the NCAA Foundation, which recently Professional election to the Commission. Roger H. Mariin mendations are: 0 A request to expand the field of named Robert C. Khayat executive A 1965 graduate of Drew Univer- competitors for the Division I Wom- director, and on a recommendation sity, Martin went on to study at technic Institute in teaching and Development to expand the Association’s off- Edinburgh llnivcrsity and later to administrative roles. en’s Cross Country Championships. ciating improvement program to receive two graduate degrees from Martin also served the City of l Requests to expand the brackets Seminar set of all three NCAA men’s soccer the sports of wrestling, ice hockey, Yale Ilnivcrsity. In 1974, he earned a New York in the Education Incen- .l’he 10th NCAA Professional championships. men’s lacrosse and baseball. doctorate from Oxford University. tive Program of the Human Re- Development SKIIUIW for athletics As set forth in NCAA Bylaw Programs currently are conducted sources Administration. administrators will be held in Nash- From 19X0 until he assumed the 2 I .4. I .3, the Fxecutive C‘ommittee in Division I men’s and women’s presidency at Moravian, Martin He has written a book on Evan- has final authority in determming basketball. ville, l‘ennessee, June 15-17 at the was associate dean and lecturer on gelical Church history, “Evangclicals the propriety of rules changes Several other issues also are on Opryland Hotel. church history at Harvard Univer- United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre- adopted by governing sports com- the agenda, including: ‘IOpics for the seminar include sity. As senior dean of the profes- VictorIan Britain 17951830.” mittccs. l Ilonorariums for champion- intcrcollcgiate licensmg and mcr- sional school, he was involved in Martin has been named an horlm Generally. the committee reviews ships host mstltutlons. chandlsing, successfully soliciting most aspects of planning and opcr- orary fellow 01 Lincoln Collrge, those changes that could affect the l Championships field si7cs and corporate sponsors in intercollegiate athletics, successfully mar- ations. Oxford, and in 19X7 rcccived an areas o! player safety, financial im- participation ratios Before workmg at Harvard, Mar- honorary degree from Lehigh Uni- pact and image of the sport in qucs- l USC of smokeless tobacco at kcting intercollegiate basketball, tin served as executive assistant to verslty. He rcccntly was elected to tion. NCAA championships. sucessfully marketing women’s the president of Middlcbury College. the board of trustees at St Luke’s Reports from several of the Asso- l The Association’s drug-testing athletics and common marketing He also was associated with New Hospital and Moravian Academy, ciation’s general committees also program and related team-ineligi- elements in Intercollegiate athletics. York University and Rensselaer Poly- both in Bethlehem, Pennsylvama. will be received by the Executive bility sanctions. See Pn~fe.~sional, page 2 CFA still working out details of I-A championship proposal The College Football Association time to implement changes or put it Notre Dame and Pennsylvania cret, but estimates range from $50 played the first two weeks of De- says it is still working out the details off for the future,” Ogrean said. State University and the southern million to $80 million, the Associated cembcr on campus. The quartefi- for its plan to replace college bowl He said details have not been members such & Florida State Uni- Press reported. nals would be held around New games with a Division I-A 16-team decided on who will join the selec- versity, the University of Louisville He said replacing the bowl system Year’s Day, and the semifinals would championship play-off and may tion committee, but it might be and Memphis State University. with play-offs would be ideal in an be a double-header. The champion- have other alternatives if the bowl patterned after the television com- The Big Ten and the Pacific-IO effort to keep the number of games ship game would be played the plan fails. mittee, where there are representa- Conferences, which are not CFA played as low as possible. However, week before the Super Bowl. Dave Ogrean, CFA assistant ex- tives from each of five conferences members, would be excluded. he said if the bowls object, there are Ogrean said the money would be ecutive director for television, said and the two independent college Criteria for choosing the partici- other alternatives, including revised divided among all 63 members of April 24 that members have ex- groups. The five conference pants would include the won-lost play-off schedules. the CFA, with special weight given pressed cautious optimism about members include the Atlantic Coast record, strength of schedule and Ogrcan said the proposed play- to the I6 teams taking part in the the plan, but he said no decision will Conference, the Southeast Confer- head-to-head competition. off schedule calls for 16 teams to be play-offs. be made until the membership votes ence, the Southwest Athletic Con- Ogrean said the change would chosen by committee, including Charles M. Neinas, executive di- on it during the annual meeting ference, the Big Eight Conference mean more money for participating seven teams that would be auto- rector of the CFA, who presented June 24 in Dallas.

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