THE NCAA NEWS/March A,1988 Two Attendance Records Set at ‘88 Convention in Nashville Two NCAA Convention Attend- Percent

Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association March 9,1988, Volume 25 Number 10 House overwhelmingly passes bill to broaden Title IX scope The House overwhelmingly discrimination in Federally funded rent law to provide that entire insti- passed a landmark civil-rights bill education programs applies only tutions and government agencies March 3 that would broaden the to specific programs or activities are covered if any program or activ- scope of Title IX and three other receiving Federal assistanceand not ity within them receivesFederal aid. statutes, but President Reagan has to the entire institutions of which The broad coverage also applies to vowed to veto the measure. they are part. the private sector if the aid goes to a The Civil Rights Restoration Act Supporters of the act said corporation as a whole or if the was sent to the White House on a hundreds of discrimination corn- recipient principally provides cdu- 3 15-98vote. The Senate passedit by plaints had been dropped or rcs- cation, health care, housing, social an equally lopsided 75-14 vote in tricted since the decision, the services or parks and recreation. January. Associated Press reported. In addition to Title IX ofthe 1972 In letters delivered to several Education Amendments, the act Both chambers passed the bill by amends three other civil-rights laws House Republicans, Reagan said the two-thirds margin needed to potentially affected by the Supreme override a presidential veto, but it flatly he will veto the measure “if it is presented to me in its current Court ruling: the 1964 Civil Rights was unclear whether the margins Act, barring racial discrimination in form.” would hold up following Reagan’s Federally assisted programs; the vow to reject the measure. The President said the bill “dram 1973 Rehabilitation Act, barring The restoration act was designed matically expands the scope of Fed- discrimination against the handi- to reverse a 1984 Supreme Court eral jurisdiction over state and local capped in any program or activity decision in a case brought by Grove governments and the private sector” receiving Federal aid, and the 1975 City College. In that case, the Su- and “poses a particular threat to Age Discrimination Act, barring preme Court held in a 6-3 ruling religious liberty.” employment discrimination against that Title 1X-a law barring sex The restoration act expands cur- older people in any such programs. Finch earns ‘big assist’ for helping women’s basketball reach its goals The NCAA Division I Women’s pionships and the championship Steve Woitmann photo Basketball Championship is in a semifinals are televised by ESPN, New champion constant state of development. One and the championship game is tele- constant in that development thus Mike Himes of Upper Iowa shows his etation after winning vised by CBS. In 1982, only the far has been Nora Lynn Finch, final game was televised by CBS. the l-pound tftfe by defeating &fending cf?ampion V/c chair of the Division I Women’s Two milestones were reached ear- Pozsonyi of Anton State in the NCAA Divtsion Ill Wrestling Basketball Committee. lier than Finch had expected. One Championshfps. Story on page 7. Finch, an associate director of was the expansion of the tourna- athletics at North Carolina State ment field lo its current 40 teams. University, has been the committee’s The other was the sold-out status of Nominations are open only chair. She will go off the com- last year’s championship semifinals mittee this fall. and finals at the University of Texas, “In 1982,with the inaugural tour- Austin. for committee positions nament, there were so many policies “(A sellout) is a milestone for Vacancies on the Men’s and Committee members’divisions, dis- we had to set up.“she said. “You had anybody after six years,“Finch said. Women’s Committees on Commit- tricts or regions are in parentheses: to decide what to do best first. All of “That is a tribute to the champion- teesand the Nominating Committee Men’s Committee on Commit- our initial policies were centered on ship and to the host school.” will be filled by the Council during tees-Three-year term with no im- providing the best experience for a With the big picture always in that group’s April 18-20meeting in mediate reelection. Four expirations. team.” focus, Finch recognizes what has Washington, D.C. Not eligible for reelection: James This is still the No. I priority, and been accomplished and sees what Member institutions are invited W. Lessig, Mid-American Athletic policies are geared to maximizing still needsto be done. The committee to submit nominations for these Conference (14); Noel W. Olson, competition, with a minimum of Nora Lynn Finch supports expansion of the tourna- vacancies, which must be received North Central Intercollegiate Ath- distractions. Policies are reviewed ment field from 40 to 48 teams and in the NCAA national office by letic Conference (11-S); Allen F. and adjusted annually, with feed- proximately $162,000. Last year, will continue to seek Executive Corn- Fannie B. Vaughan, executive as- Ackerman, Elmhurst College (III- back from the teams weighing heav- the championship netted about mittee approval of this recommen- sistant, no later than March 30. at large); Roy E Kramer, Vanderbilt ily in the decision-making process. $360,000. dation. Following is a list of those whose University (I-at large). The chair is Finances and television have been Television rights fees have more “NCAA tournament participa- terms expire, including those eligible to be selectedfrom among members two areas of growth. In 1982, the than tripled since 1982 and so has tion is an acknowledgement of ex- and not eligible for reappointment. See Nominations, page 2 championship had a deficit of ap- coverage. All four regional cham- See Finch, page 2 Great players of 1950s focused attention on FinallT- lrour (The fifth of a IO-part series com- versity of Washington’s Bob Hou- Virginia University, and the Univer- bertson, Chamberlain and Pettit moving on to the site of the cham- memorating the 50th anniversary of bregs, and La Salle University’s sity of Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson. an all-star team any coach would pionship for the semifinals. A year the NC4 A Final Four) Tom Cola all starred in tournaments They all took part in the Final Four love all played on teams that ei- later, the NCAA established an in- during the early 1950s. “Look at the talent in those years; ther lost in the final or in semifinals. dependent office in Kansas City, In the history of college basket- Then, in the last half of the dec- it’s just amazing how it all came And while the players were get- and newly appointed Executive Di- ball, the 1950s will be remembered together,” said Hall of Fame coach ting better, so was the basketball rector Walter Byers took over ad- as a time when some of the greatest Pete Newell. “If you had to pick a tournament. A number of adminis- ministration of the tournament. players in the sport’s history left top five from that decade, guys like trative decisions in the 1950shelped National television arrived in 1954, their mark on the court. And just Tom Cola and Clyde Lovellette to establish the importance of the although it would not become an about all of them imprinted their probably would not make the first championship. annual event until 1963. names in the archives of the NCAA team; and they were both great In 1951, the field was doubled All of this combined to give the Division I Men’s Basketball Cham- players, just outstanding players. from eight to 16 teams; and later, it great players of the 1950sa showcase pionship, which celebrates its 50th Had they come 10 years earlier, or would grow to more than 20 teams. for their talents. Some were success- championship this year in Kansas IO years later, they would have been With the larger field came the con- ful. Others were disappointed. West City. ade, there were players like Bill challengers for player-of-thedecade cept of conference champions’ re- and Chamberlain experienced the Players like Cliff Hagan and Russell and K.C. Jones of the Uni- awards.” ceiving automatic berths. biggest heartbreaks. West’s West Frank Ramsey of the University of versity of San Francisco, the Uni- Yet, as good as many of those For the 1952tournament in Seat- Virginia team lost the 1959 title Kentucky, Clyde Lovellette of the versity of Kansas’ Wilt players were, not all of them were tle, the first true Final Four was game to Newell’s University of Cal- University of Kansas, Bob Pettit at Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor of Seat- on teams that won an NCAA cham- held. That year, four regionals were ifornia, Berkeley, Bears at Louis- Louisiana State University, the Uni- tle University, Jerry West of West pionship. In fact, West, Baylor, Ro- set up, with each regional winner See Great, page 3 1 2 THE NCAA NEWS/March a,1988 Two attendance records set at ‘88 Convention in Nashville Two NCAA Convention attend- percent. Record: 70.3 percent, San gations averaged I .42 persons. l Division I vote: 317 on two grants. ance records were established at the Diego, 1987. The overall registration figure of different proposals-adding grade- l Division II vote: I87 on the 1988 gathering January 10-l 3 in eNumber of proposals acted I ,8 I6 included 1,495 delegates from point averages to the satisfactory- tryout proposal. Previous record Nashville. upon: 200. Record: 257, St. Louis, active member institutions, 109from progress rule and a motion to refer was 164, San Diego, 1987, on the The total number of organiza- 1976.

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