The NCAA Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association March 23,1988, Volume 25 Number 12 Flexibility allowed in granting Bylaw S-I-(j) waiver hearings An NCAA Council subcommit- across the board,“explained Daniel forth by the subcommittee were tee has given itself leeway to deter- T Dutcher, NCAA legislative as- minimum grade-point averages for mine whether it will hear requests sistant who serves as a staff liaison student-athletes who meet stand- for academically justified Bylaw 5- to the subcommittee. ardized-test requirements but fall l-(j) waivers that previously would The action was taken after con- short on core-course requirements, have been rejected automatically. cerns about the rigidity of the re- or vice versa. The criteria also de- quirements were expressed by fined what constitutes an “accepta- By changing one word in its Division I conference commissioners ble” standardized test. waiver-application procedure, the who participated in a late-February Council Subcommittee on Bylaw 5- Although the subcommittee has seminar in Kansas City, Missouri. 1-(j) Exceptions has left open the opened a door for applicants who Divisions I and II voted at the possibility that it will hear waiver fall short of meeting the criteria, it January Convention to authorize requests that fall short of meeting has not changed the actual criteria, the Council to grant exceptions to previously established “threshold Dutcher emphasized. The action the initialxligibility requirements criteria” (see February 17, 1988, merely gives the subcommittee dis- of Bylaw S-l-(j) in cases where a issue of The NCAA News). The cretion to hear cases that automati- member institution provides “objec- subcommittee now says an applica- cally would have been excluded tive evidence” that a student’s overall tion “should,” rather than “must,” from consideration before. academic record warrants such an meet the criteria before it will be exception. To date, the subcommittee has considered. As a result, the Council subcom- heard 14 requests for waivers and is “The subcommittee didn’t want mittee was formed; and in February, tentatively scheduled to conduct its to preclude itself completely from it established principles and proce- next hearing during an April 13 considering applications that ap- dures for member institutions to telephone conference. The calls are proach meeting the threshold re- follow in applying for waivers. being scheduled as needed to quirements but do not meet them Among the threshold criteria set handle waiver requests. June Forum on Commission’s agenda A review of planning for the 11 subcommittees all are scheduled ventions. stew~nphoto Presidents Commission National to discuss that issue, including the l A status report on implementa- We’re No. 1 Forum scheduled for June 20-21 possibility of legislation that may be tion of the legislative provisions tops the agenda for the Commis- submitted by NCAA members in promulgated by the Commission Atizona State coach Bobby Doug&s is given a vict~lfde by sion’s regular spring meeting April that regard at the 1989 annual Con- and adopted at the June 1985 “in- ’ his wrestlers, who ~ptun?d the school& lllrst team title in 6-7 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza vention. tegrity” Convention. NCAA Division I wndting. See story on page 6. Hotel in Atlanta. The Division 11 subcommittee l A report by NCAA Executive President Bernard F. Sliger of also will review the current academic Director Richard D. Schultz on his Florida State University, chair of requirements for athletics eligibility recent meetings with representatives Rep. Conte says NYSP the Commission’s Ad Hoc Commit- in that division, and the Division 111 of the Association of Governing tee on the National Forum, will subcommittee will discuss the Divi- Boards and the American Council report to the group on plans for the sion III financial aid legislation in on Education. can count on his help June 20-21 Forum session in Or- light of the actions of the Division l Status reports on NCAA drug- education and drug-testing pro- The 1988 National Youth Sports representatives in attendance. The lando, Florida. The Commission III membership in January. Program workshop in Arlington, luncheon also featured a presenta- also will receive a progress report Other topics on the agenda for grams, as well as player-agent issues. Virginia, March 3-5, brought project tion by participants from the Uni- on the Forum-related research being the full Commission: Chancellor John B. Slaughter, administrators together with Con- versity of District of Columbia’s conducted by the American Insti- @The concept of a seminar or University of Maryland, College gressional representatives and speak- NYSP project. tutes for Research. other type of orientation for chief Park, will chair the full Commission ers with expertise in various phases “It is a good program,” Rep. Each of the Commission’s three executive officers at NCAA Con- See June Forum, page 2 of NYSP. Conte said. “Yet, every year, some- division subcommittees will discuss A luncheon on Capitol Hill cele- body tries to give me a good fight on the June Forum plans from the Young to represent Pat-10 brating the 20th anniversary of the this. The administration proposed perspective of the respective divi- program featured speeches by Rep. wiping out the program altogether sions. Lindy Boggs, D-Louisiana; Sen. last year. We cannot accept these Another major topic on the on Presidents Commission Quentin Burdick, D-North Dakota, cuts, yet we have to stay within the agenda for the Atlanta meeting is Charles E. Young, chancellor of and Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Massa- limits set by the deficit-reduction the continuing interest by a number the University of California, Los chusetts. deal agreed to last December. You of presidents and chancellors in Angeles, has been appointed by the Rep. Bill Green, R-New York, know where I will be this year- some type of freshman ineligibility Pacific- 10 Conference to succeed and Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio, right where I always am, out in in intercollegiate athletics. The Di- Ira Michael Heyman of the Univer- were among other Congressional See Rep. Come, page 16 vision I, Division I-A and Division sity of California, Berkeley, on the NCAA Presidents Commission. Heyman resigned from the Com- mission after serving since it was Whatever it took, Bruins had it formed in 1984. He was the Com- (i’le seventh of a IO-part series com- incredible 38 straight victories in men we had.” mission’s Division 1 and Division memorating the 50th anniversary of the suddendeath atmosphere of the UCLA beat traditional powers in I-A chair in 1986 and 1987 and was the NCAA Final Four) postseason. title games, like the 1975 victory instrumental in launching the “The championships were all very over Kentucky, 92-85. UCLA also group’s 18-month National Forum. He won with teams dominated important to me, but 1 think our beat young upstarts like Jackson- Young, UCLA’s chancellor for by a big, talented center. He won ville, taking an 80-60 victory in the the past 20 years, has been active in with teams that were filled with 1970 title game. The Bruins won athletics matters, both in the NCAA guards and forwards. He won with lopsided games like the 32-point and in the American Council on teams that fell somewhere in be- victory in the 1972 West regional Education, throughout that period. tween big and small. over Weber State. And they won He was a member of the NCAA- In the history of the NCAA Divi- close games, like a two-point victory funded Select Committee on Ath- sion I Men’s Basketball Champion- over Long Beach State in the 1971 letic Problems and Concerns in Chades E. Young ship, no one has won more games West regional. Higher Education in 1982-1983. and championships than John After winning five championships A native Californian, Young a doctorate in political science at Wooden. Year after year, in the late record in tournament play was in the 196Os, Wooden started the earned his bachelor’s degree at the UCLA, served as staff assistant to 1960s and early 1970s Wooden’s maybe the most special thing those next decade without his big center, University of California, Riverside, the group that developed the “Mas- University of California, Los An- teams did,” Wooden said recently. Lew Alcindor, who had graduated. after military service in the Korean ter Plan for Higher Education in geles, Bruins dominated college bas- “They faced elimination every time Replacing him was Steve Patterson. War. He was Cal Riverside’s first California,” and was an assistant ketball. He had a 47-10 career record they stepped on the floor. I think it’s Still, with a team led by guards student-body president. professor of political science at the in tournament games, including an agreat testimony to what fine young See Whatever page 2 He earned a master’s degree and See Young, page 2 2 THE NCAA NEWS/March 23.1988 Whatever Legislative Assistance Continuedfrom page 1 1988 Column No. 12 John Vallely and Henry Bibby, and forwards Sidney Wicks and Curtis NCAA Constitution 3-l-(h)-(l)-recognition and Rowe, the Bruins proved to be of postseason award banquets championship caliber. Wooden was The NCAA Council has reviewed the NCAA Legislation and Interpre- forced to be more creative, and he YEA6CHAM rnNfma l E RUNNERUP SrrE tations Committee’s decision regarding the application of Case Nos. 9 I and pulled his team out of the low-post 1970 UCLA John Wooden Jacksonville 3d Pf.ME New Mexico St.---St. Bonaventure E ilwe Park* 92 (pages 338-339, 1988-89 NCAA Manual) as these regulations relate to offense that had featured Alcindor MVP: Siney Wicks (UCLA) team award or recognition meetings and annual all-sports banquets.