The NCAA Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association November 14,1999, Volume 25 Number 40 Ed Bradley Melvin G. Counts Tony R Hall J. Paul M&ha Kiti Pendleton Jay Wilkinson NCAA announces winners of Silver Anniversarv awards J A CBS News correspondent, a nia, football and track; Melvin G. XII program, which also honors six the network news staff in 1971 as a during the 198l-82 season. 1964 Olympic gold medalist and a Counts, Oregon State University, of today’s top student-athletes. The stringer in the Paris bureau. He was He lettered in both football and U.S. Congressman are among the basketball; Tony P. Hall, Denison awards will be presented at the transferred to Saigon in 1972 and track at Cheyney and captained the recipients of this year’s Silver Anni- University, football; J. Paul Martha, honors luncheon during the 1989 was wounded while on assignment football team for two seasons.He is versary awards. The awards honor University of Pittsburgh, football NCAA Convention in San Fran- in Cambodia, then volunteered to a patron of the Boy Scouts, Police former student-athletes who have and baseball; Kirk Pendleton, Le- cisco. return to Indochina in 1975to cover Athletic League, the Studio Mu- distinguished themselvessince com- high University, wrestling, and Jay Following are biographical the fall of Cambodia and Vietnam. seum of Harlem and the Dance pleting college athletics careers 25 Wilkinson, Duke University, foot- sketches of this year’s honlorees: Bradley also has worked as a Museum of Harlem. years ago. ball. Ed Bradley news anchor and White House cor- Melvin G. Counts The six recipients are Ed Bradley, The Silver Anniversary awards Bradley has won six Emmys for respondent. He became coeditor of Counts was an all-America bas- Cheyney University of Pennsylva- are part of the College Athletics Top his work with CBS News. He joined the CBS program “60 Minutes” See NCAA, page 2 Summer school aid Convention delegates to vote sought for freshmen on 147 legislative moposals U One piece of legislation to be the 1989 Convention.” I total. considered by delegates at the Currently, Constitution 34- Delegates to the Assorciation’s ness session. That compares to 73, NCAA’s 1989 Convention easily (b)-(l) states that athletically 83rd annual Convention in January When the general businesssession 64 and 70 the past three years. could become known as the stu- related financial aid for summer will face 147 proposed amendments, convenes January 11, it will begin Whether the general businessses- dent-athletes’ “head start” pro- school may be provided only to and the majority of them will be with 38 amendments in three con- sion again will be completed in one gram. If approved by the student-athletes who have been handled in consent packages and sent packages-one dealing with day, rather than the scheduled day membership, the proposal will in residence a minimum of one the separate division business ses- constitutional issues, one with by- and a half, remains to be seen. pave the way for incoming stu- term during the regular academic sions. laws amendments, and a special There are several proposals, includ- dent-athletes to get a jump on year or to those who are “attend- Of the 147 proposals, 49-or package recommended by the Spe- ing some dealing with financial aid, their college classeswithout hav- ing a summer orientation pro- 33.3 percent-will be dealt with by cial Committee on Deregulation that promise to be time-consuming. ing to worry about athletics. gram for which participation (by the separatedivision and subdivision and Rules Simplification. Also, the general business sessionis “Certainly, that is why this both athletes and nonathletes) is business sessions January 10, the The 38 consent-package items scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon and legislation has been developed,” required and financial aid is ad- day before the general business ses- equal last year’s total, tying for the 1:30 to 5 p.m. this year, instead of said John R. Gerdy, NCAA leg- ministered on the same basis for sion begins. That is the highest second highest consent-package beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 6 islative assistant. “After being all participants in the program.” percentage in the four years that the count in the 12 years the device has p.m. as in past years. developedby the Recruiting Com- “Obviously, the existing legis- divisions have been permitted to been used to handle noncontrover- An unofficial count of the amend- mittee and reviewed by the Aca- lation is restrictive,” Gerdy of- take final voting actions in their sial proposals. ments to be handled by the separate demic Requirements Committee, fered, “and it arguably hinders own business sessions. With the consent packages and divisions and subdivisions-which the proposal was considered by the transition from high school In the three previous years, there the division-specific legislation out will be verified this week as the the Council in October, and the to college for some student-ath- were 27,45 and 52 division-specific of the way, the delegates will have a legislation is prepared for printing Council agreed to sponsor it at See Summer. page 3 proposals, and the 52 last year re- total of 60 amendments to act on in in the Official Notice of the Con- presented only 31.9 percent of the the remainder of the general busi- See Convention, page 3 Bailev describes features of revised Manual Eight items J Editor’s Note: Following is an understanding, and, to a degree, to scheduled interview with Wilford S. Bailey, what an individual might refer to as NCAA president and chair of the too much minute detail. Special Committee on Deregulation From all of the discussions that Delegates to the NCAA’s 1989 for roll call and Rules Simplt$cation, that was committee members have had indi- Convention in San Francisco are The executive committee of the recorded earlier this fall in Kansas vidually, and from our exhibits at expected to take action on adoption NCAA Presidents Commission has City. In the session, Bailey com- the past two Conventions, we have of a revised MmzuaL the mast ma@ identified eight legislative amend- mented in detail on a revised NCAA not received any indication that the revcVion of the Associations rules ments for roll-call votes at the 1989 Manual that may strike users as membership is concerned directly and regulations ever undertaken. NCAA Convention in San Fran- being considerably latger in size than with the length of the Manual so In thtLssix-part series, The NCAA cisco. the NCAA rules book now in use. long as it is easier to use, easier to News presents a detailed report on Meeting by telephone earlier this read and understand, and organized the people and events that, in many month, the Commission officers- The NCAA News: One long-time to make it easy for users to find ways, have transformed the Associa- who serve as the executive commit- criticism of the Manual has been its information. tion ‘s ‘bible *’ into an encyclopedia. tee ~~reviewed all legislation sub- length and bulk. What has been the The NCAA News: You have indi- This week: Btgger is better. mitted for the Convention and effect of revision on the Manual’s cated that there are some features in specified the eight proposals that size? the revised Manual that added they believe warrant roll calls. The Bailey: Well, it is correct that in length inherently through their use. Commission is authorized to make the past, criticism of the Manual Bailey: That certainly is true. nothing else but add these headings, design in presenting information that designation. often has included reference to There are several of those features, we would have increased the length has added length to the Manual, They also specified 10 propos- length. We (members of the special in fact. of the Manual by 10 percent. but that also will make it easier to als ~ including all eight of the roll- committee) are convinced that the The use of headings at the begin- We have added abbreviated tables read. So will the larger type size, call items-to be placed in the spe- reference to length was sort of a ning of each paragraph is one. Al- of contents at the beginning of each which inherently takes more space, cial ‘Presidents Commission Group- secondary point and that length most every paragraph in the revised article. They have added length, but but it also enhances readability. ing” of legislation, early in the was tied in the minds of people who Manual has a heading. we believe they will be tremendously However, the greatest single cause agenda. were criticizing it to the complexity By our best estimate, the headings valuable to users in finding infor- of any increase in length is the Of those 10 special-placement of the Manual.. difficulty in find- themselves constitute about 10 per- mation. marked expansion in the playing- items, four will be handled in the ing information and difficulty in cent of the book if we had done The use of a hanging-indention See Bailey. page 2 See Eight, page 3 THE NCAA NEWS/November 14,lS68 Continued from page 1 bering systemwe have incorporated. it down into usable parts. We believe point is that we believe informat;on and practice-season bylaw, Bylaw But the Council and the Executive this is going to work well. on a given subject now can be pulled 17. We struggled with this. Committee have authorized publi- The NCAA News: For years, out to serve as selfcontained legis- We looked at alternative presen- cation of some of what we call the some have called the Manual the lation for, say, a coach in recruiting tations ~~one that would group the operating bylaws as division Manu- NCAA’s “bible.” Your description or for a financial aid director- information by sport; another that als.