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NCAA Councl’l Considers Variety of Subjects The NCAA Council has ap- marily with housekeeping mat- Television, Volunteers for Youth provement of officiating in vari- visional round tables beginning pointed a special committee to ters,” said President J. Neils and Women’s Intercollegiate ous sports be awarded only to in 1980. All action on Conven- consider ways and means of re- Thompson. “Much of the time Athletics. Council action of those allied and afliliated organiza- tion recommendations was post- ducing the growing amount of was taken hearing reports from reports will, for the most part, tions. poned until the August meeting. paperwork created by conference the various committees, includ- be reported in the next issue of l Certified three new post- The Council meeting with the and NCAA information report- ing a most informative meeting the NEWS. season football games (see story, Committee on Infractions re- ing. with the Committee on Infrac- Among other actions taken by page 3). Also, the Council cer- viewed various aspects on the tions. We also reviewed legisla- Acting at its April 24-26 meet- the Council: tified 14 other post-season foot- Association’s investigative and tion passed at the Convention ing at the Alameda Plaza Hotel l Affirmed the officers’ deci- ball games and five all-star enforcement procedures and and discussed legislative sub- in Kansas City, Missouri, the sion to have the Association re- games. considered ways and means of jects which should be reviewed Council appointed the following join the U. S. Olympic Commit- improving the efficiency of the prior to the next Convention.” l Considered a number of to the special committee: Cliff tee. recommendations regarding the program. A special tribute was Spcegle, Southwest Athletic Con- Reports were issued by the l Approved the guidelines 1979 NCAA Convention in San given to Arthur R. Reynolds, ference, chairman; Earnest C. following Association commit- and procedures for approval of Francisco, including longer cii- University of Northern Colorado, Casale, Temple University; Hu- tees: Division I, II and III Steer- NCAA research projects as rec- visional round tables, a shorter who will reach the end of his bert Heitman Jr., University of ing, Executive, Extra Events, ommcnded by the Research Com- general round table, an earlier term as a committee member California, Davis; Dana W. Swan, Governmental Affairs, Interna- mittee. adjournment time, placing more September 1, 1978. Reynolds has Haverford College, and Bob Va- tional Relations, Long Range l Approved the recommenda- legislation in the consrnt pxck- served nine years as a commit- natta, Ohio Valley Conference. Planning, Professional Sports tion of the Executive Committee ages and the feasibility of per- tee member and four years as “Our April sessions dealt pri- Liaison, Promotion, Research, that NCAA grants for the im- mitting limited voting in the dim chairman. VOL. 15 l NO. 7 MAY 15, 1978 23,000 Apply for Basketball Tickets The drawing for public tickets 1,800 tickets. for the finals of the 1979 Na- l The University of Utah and tional Collegiate Basketball the NCAA each received less Championship was conducted than 10 percent of the tickets April 28 at the University of available. Utah Special Events Center, site More than 23,000 envelopes of the tournament. representing more than 90,000 Percentages and distribution individual ticket applications of the tickets drawn were ap- have been received for the 4,410 proved by the Division I Basket- tickets available to the general ball Committee. The breakdown public. This is the second high- is as follows: est number of envelopes ever re- . Seventy percent of the seat- ceived for NCAA Basketball ing went to the general public Championship tickets. and the four participating teams. University of Utah President Dr. David P. Gardner drew the l The general public received first envelope, and selected the 30 percent (4,410) of the tickets. name of William Bolinsky of . Each participating school Minot, North Dakota. received 1,430 tickets, a total The rest of the envelopes were And the Winner Is . of 5,720 tickets for the four drawn individually by rcpresen- University of Utah President David P. Gardner (left) draws the first name for tickets to the 1979 National schools combined. These are the tatives of the University, the Collegiate Basketball Championship, which will be played in Salt Lake City next March. As Utah Di- most tickets that have ever been NCAA and Salt Lake City area rector of Athletics Arnie Ferrin looked on, Gardner drew the name of William Bolinsky of Minot, North made available to the participat- media rcprcscntatives. Dakota, whose application was one of more than 23,000 received. Representatives of the NCAA, the ing teams. The drawings concluded the University and the Salt Lake City area drew applications for the 4,410 seats which will be available to the l The National Association of public sale of the tickets for the general public. Applicants will be notified in a few weeks it their names were selected. (Photo by the Salt Basketball Coaches received tournament. Lake Tribune) Withdrew Six Years Ago Association Renews Membership in usoc The Association has rejoined sport organizations such as the contest is being conducted under forcemcnt on the complaint and the United States Olympic Com- NCAA and the Amateur Athletic previous USOC procrdures. franchise ar-bItration procedures mittee, an organization from Union may not serve as national Serious discussions concern- now contained in the USOC Con- which it withdrew six years ago. governing bodies for internation- ing the Association’s rejoining of stitution. “We cannot overem- After discussions which al purposes. Henceforth, such the USOC began late in 1977. In phasizr the importance of this spanned several months, the governing bodies will be required a February 15, 19’78, letter to consideration to the NCAA and, NCAA applied for admission for to be autonomous organizations USOC Executive Director F. Don in our judgment, to the integrity USOC Group B April 3. The and to meet detailed standards Miller, NCAA Executive Direc- of the ‘vertical structure’ prin- USOC’S Board of Delegates set forth in the revised USOC tor Walter Byers identified the ciple of the USOC 1977 reorgan- granted the application April 14 Constitution. bases upon which the NCAA ization,” Byers said. at a meeting in Lake Buena Also, new procedures have would rejoin the USOC: l The USOC would replace Vista, Florida. been established by which a na- l The USOC would not seek or current Srctions G through 9 of The NCAA was represented tional governing body’s control will it attempt to exercise (ex- Article II of its Constitution with by President J. Neils Thompson; of a sport can bc challenged and cept with reference to trials for 3 statement of circumstances in Dave Maggard, chairman of the the challenge heard by an im- the Pan American or Olympic which a USOC member will not International Relations Commit- partial board of arbitrators. The Games), direct o,r indirect juris- interfere with competitive ath- tee; and Michael Scott of the United States Wrestling Federa- diction over domestic amateur letic opportunity. Essentially, legal firm of Cox, Langford and tion has already commenced a athletic competition. “protected” competition will now Brown. challenge against the right of the l The USOC would vigorously include the Olympic and Pan The Association’s decision to Wrestling Division of the AAU enforce the new criteria for American Gamrs, world cham- renew its membership came af- to be the national governing IJSOC Group A membcrsbip pionships, international compe- DAVE MAGGARD tition involving an official na- ter a significant reorganization body for the sport (NCAA (national governing body j and Choirmon, Internotional Relations of the USOC. Notably, multi- NEWS, March 1) although that will not simply rely for such en- Continued on pugr 7 Committee The Editor’s View In Search of Reasonable Balance J. Brent Clark resigned from the staff of headline screamed across the front of the Reprinted below is an excerpt from the writing of II news columnist commenting pertinently about intercollegiate athIetics. It is selected the House Subcommittee on Oversight and sports section : “Hearing Told NCAA Bribed bccn?cse the NCAA NEWS feels it makes a point and discusses a topic Investigation April 24. Athletes.” The story consumed more than 20 column inches, not counting the accompany- which will interest rcndets. Ptchlication herein, however, does not Mr. Clark is the former NCAA investiga- tmply NCAA NEWS m~rlorsemcnt of the views expressed bv the ing picture of Clark. tor who went to Washington and set off a uuthor. chain of controversy with his testimony that On May 5, however, the news of Clark’s the NCAA routinely bribes student-athletes. resignation did not even merit a headline (no His statements caused coast-to-coast head- matter how small) in The Post. The informa- At the Crossroads lines, many of which treated the assertions tion was the second item in the FanFare de- as l-actual. partment of the sports section. It was listed By REGIS McAULEY Rut a special task force of three congres- behind a promotion for the Washington Cap- lurran Cifiren sional investigators found after an exhaus- itals hockey team and ahead of the naming College football is going to reach the crossroads ahead of schedule. tive study that Clark’s testimony was “de- of a tournament director for a local tennis The long~prcdicted clash between thr “haves” and the “have-nets” ficient” and in need of correction. In simple cvcnt. (:onsidering the obscurity, it is likely has romc to a head with thr report that 130 or more of the nation’s terms, this means that Mr.

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