Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, January 9, 1970 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, January 9, 1970 BIG 10 B-BALL TEXTBOOKS UP TO VOFF U LB; ICII'S The Student's Bookstore Mountain faces cagers m "" " -I GRADUATE ASSEMBLY WILL HOLD ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS ON JANUARY 28, 1970 Any Graduate or Professional Student may have his name placed in nomination by contacting a G.A. representative, attending the January 14 meeting, or contacting the Nominations Committee (764- 4219). Nominees may address the January 14 meet- ing if they desire to do so. (No campus-wide cam- paigns will take place since only the G.A. representa- tives vote in the election.) Nominations Meeting-January 14 Election Meeting-January 28 Place of Meeting: West Conference Room, Rackham -READ AND USE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS- By ELLIOTT LEGOW Led by All-American guard Rick Mount, the Purdue Boilermakers ran away with the Big Ten bas- ketball crown last year. But des- pite Mount's presence again this year, the NCAA runner-up Boiler- makers are not considered s u r e things in the 1970 Big Ten cage race. Illinois and Ohio State rate as prime contenders with Purdue for the first place finish and a spot in the NCAA tournament. Iowa, which upset Purdue in the first week of Big Ten play, is regard- ed as a dark-horse threat. The Boilermakers have been put in the favorite's role this sea- son primarily on the basis of their first place finish last year, and because of Mount. Purdue went 13-1 in onference games last year and ma e it to the finals of the NCAA tournament before being ousted by Lew Alcindor and UCLA. Mount, who set a Big Ten re- cord with a 35.2 per game scor- ing average last season, will have to carry even more of the load this year. Purdue's number two and three scorers from last year's quintet, Herm Gilliam and Bill Keller, have graduated. Keller and Gilliam also were strong on defense, a quality Mount lacks. Tyrone Bedford and Larry Weatherford, who performed well as substitutes. last season will try to fill the vacated positions. However, Boilermaker c o a c h George King has already had problems with Weatherford. Wea- therford was suspended, along with center Bill Franklin, f r o m the Iowa game last weekend as the result of curfew violations. If the Boilermakers do falter, Ohio State or Illinois could wind up on top of the Big Ten. Illinois' hopes rest primarily ontthe per- formances of 6-8 center Greg Jacksonand guard Mike Price. Jackson is a big center at 2 5 5 pounds and provides the Illini with strong rebounding. He is also Illinois' leading scorer and will have to make up for the departure of ,llini star forward D a v e Scholz. Price leads the tight Illinois de- fense and also provides a reliable outside shot. The Illini often em- ploy a zone defense and are skill- ed at preventing the opposition from penetrating near the basket. And with Jackson guarding the inside, scoring on Illinois will re- main difficult. Ohio State is led by two star front courtment, senior D a v e Sorenson and junior Jim Cleam- ons. Sorensen is an agressive cent- er who averaged 23 points last year and leads the Buckeyes insre- bounding. Cleamons is developing into a real star. As a sophomore, he was the Bucks' second highest scorer and rebounder and is coming on stronger this year. Cleamons has a good outside shot and also pro- vides the Buckeyes with speed. Ohio State can be expected to use a running offense and the in- side play of Sorenson to build a contending team. Iowa's outside chances are al- ready improving as the Hawk- eyes stand 2-0 in their first week of conference play. The highlight of that week was' the Hawks' up- set of Purdue. There is no one Hawkeye star, but coach Ralph Miller has sev- eral high scorers in his starting quintet. In Iowa's 107-99 victory over Michigan, three Hawkeyes netted over 20 points. Forward John Johnson led with 34, and guards Chad Calabria and Fred Brown showed the Hawkeyes' out- side power by chipping in 24 and 23 respectively. If the Hawkeyes are to take it all, however, they will need more nights when they shoot 63 percent and more victories over contend- ing teams. MARK HENRY (23) putting the spin on his jump shot in a victory over Marquette at the Events Building. Warriors' center Ric Cobb (51) gazes at basket in anticipation of a rebound., Dean Meminger (14) also is in position. The rest of the Big Ten cage lineup is a rather uninspiring lot. If some potential stars blossom, other Big Ten teams may be heard from. Indiana is relying on newcom- ers Bubbles Harris and Joby Wright. Dale Kelley is N o r t h- western's main cog, while Minne-C sota boasts Larry Mikon and Eric Hill. Right now, its still Rick Mount against the field, but the Boiler- makers will have their hands full and could'see the Big Ten crown flee to Columbus, - Champagne, or Iowa City. I ..:........... Big Ten Standings LAST YEAR'S FINAL RESULTS gI Purdue Illinois Ohio State Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Iowa, Wisconsin Indiana I Conference W L 13 1 9 5 9 5 7 7 6 6 6 5 4 8 8 8 9 9 10 Pct. .929 .643 .643 .500 .429 .429 .429 .357 .357 .286 All Games W L 7 23. 4 19 5 17 7 13 11 11 12 12 12 14 10 12 12 11 13 9 15 Pct. .821 .792 .708 .542 .478 .500 .583 .500 .458 .375 Against he Wail The NCAA and the blacks: reaction and backlash By ERIC SIEGEL THE NATIONAL Collegiate Athletic Association has responded to the recent demands of black athletes at several univer- sities in much the same manner that George Wallace responds to the demands of black people throughout the country-with a mixture of unsubstantiated allegations and insidious half- truths and innuendos. The NCAA's response came in the December, 1969 issue of the NCAA News, the publicity and informational organ of this intercollegiate group. In an article entitled "Militant Groups Doing Great Dis- service to Black College Athletes," a collection of News staff writers, sounding 'very much like Spio Agnew's speechwriting team, bandied about such terms as "hard-core revolutionary force," "organized, outside pressure campaign," and "hard-core insurrectionists" in an effort to explain protests last fall by black athletes at the universities of Wyoming, Washington and Indiana. But the language, reactionary as it is, is probably the least innocuous element of the whole article. Ignoring the complex basis for social protest with one hand and hurling inflam- matory and unsupportable charges with the other, the News writers dismiss last year's Olympic Project for Human Rights which led several blacks to boycott the Olympic games and two others to stage a symbolic protest on the winner's stand, "as a result of persuasion, coercion and threats of bodily harm to loved ones." THE ARTICLE THEN continues, "A similar, more drastic program is evident in recent incidents involving black athletes at various NCAA member institutions." To support this contention, the article lumps the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Non- violent Co-ordinating Committee, the Peace and Freedom Party and the Black Student Union together, seeing Communist in- fluences as the common denominator in all these groups. Halfway through the two-page "special feature," the News writers discuss the incident at Wyoming last year, where four- teen blacks were suspended from the football team by Coach Lloyd Eaton when they expressed a desire to protest the rascist policies of the Mormon Church in their game against Brigham Young University. The article contends that the dismissal of the athletes was the result of "plans laid last summer" and an "outside agitator." Up to this point, the article is filled with inaccuracies. For example, it identifies Harry Edwards, the organizer of the Olympic Project and a former professor at San Jose State Col- lege, as a "Blank Panther leader identified with the BSU." Edwards has never been, identified with either group. THE SOURCES OF the article are also questionable. The analysis is based on anonymous "NEWS interviews" and al- legedly "reliable information." The authors would have one believe that they used "a study of authoritative documents"; yet the only document cited is the hearings conducted this sum- mer by the McClellan Committee-hearings that used question- able procedures and reasoning to reach even more questionable conclusions. The article pretends to be a piece of reliable reporting, but It is everything that reliable and responsible comment is not. The factual inaccuracies and the questionability of the sources are so blatant that they are easy to attack intelligently. The tone of the article is equally blatant, but it is harder to attack. The initial feeling is one of shock, disbelief, and outrage, that makes intelligent comment difficult. Marcus Plant, Michigan's faculty representative to the NCAA, would not comment on the article, but for different rea- sons. "I'd like to postpone comment for a month or so," Profes- sor Plant said. "I've got a lot of things cooking and I'm on my way to the NCAA convention (Jan. 12-14)." Willie Black, however the Chancellor of the Black Students Aliance at Wyoming, was quickly able to put the article into perspective. "THE WHOLE IMPLICATION thats there is a conspiracy behind all this is utter foolishness," Black, whose name was mentioned in the article in connection with the incident at Wyoming, told me over the phone. "The NCAA is trying to ex- plain something very complex in a very convenient way. "To say that the athletes have been coerced into taking action by black militants is ridiculous," Black continued. "They (the athletes) have enough sense to know when they're being oppressed That's like saying the Jews in Europe during World War II needed an outside agitator to tell them they were being oppressed by Hitler." Black also responded to the charge in the NCAA article that the similarity of the demands presented by black athletes at several universities indicated that there was a conspiracy. "The demands are structured the way they are because the practice of rascism is structured," Black said. Harry Edwards, quoted by Newsweek magazine, made the same point. "Has it occurred to them that the demands are that way because the mistreatment of black athletes is so structured and repetitious?" Edwards asked. Black had a two-pronged answer to the suggestion raised in the article that "discouraging problems encountered by the black athlete should and can be best resolved on a personal basis within the existing framework of personnel and procedures." "FIRST OF ALL," Black commented, "it's the existing framework that's failing. The coaches and administrators just aren't responding to the problems of the blacks. "And secondly," Black added, "the athletes are being dis- criminated against as group, so why shouldn't they respond as a group?" Given the reaction of the NCAA to the protests by black athletes across the country, what can be done now? To begin with, as Professor Plant pointed out, there is the matter of the NCAA convention in Washington, which starts in less than a week. The convention will bring together representatives from all over the country, and one of their chief orders of business should be a repudiation of the News ,statement. If the sentiment for such a repudiation is not strong enough, those representatives who sense the fallacies and rascism of the News article shold issue a statement of their own, deploring the stand taken by the NCAA on the complex issue of the rights of black athletes. 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