THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pnn Seven Pane Seven 1I ADMINISTRATIVE FIASCO: r Yale suspended; well, ,r WASHINGTON (I)-The Eastern Col- lege Athletic Conference placed Yale Uni- versity on probation yesterday for knowing- ly using an ineligible basketball player and then withdrew the penalty for the time being after a heated two-hour membership meeting. The executive Council of the ECAC, which adopted the resolution, yielded to a 66-38 vote of members present to consider withholding the probation until the ECAC's annual convention in New York late next month.. The 12-man executive council then went into closed session for one hour and voted to pull back the resolution. The council said it would meet again later this month to discuss whether to resubmit the pro- bation next month. Yale, however, said it would challenge any attempt to hand out probation. The school contends the only penalty the ECAC can give out is outright expulsion from the nation's largest athletic conference. Such a move would require a two-thirds vote of all members present and at least a majority vote of all 190 ECAC members. At issue is Yale's use of 6-foot-8 Jack L :ger after he played on the U.S. team last August in the Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv. The baslketball competition in the Games was not sanctioned by the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic Association, mak- ing Langer automatically ineligible under NCAA rules. The ECAC, an affiliate of the NCAA, also ruled him ineligible. Langer is an unfortunate victim of an- other power struggle between the NCAA and the Amateur Athletic Union over con- trol of amateur basketball in this country. The NCAA permitted athletes in other sports to participate in the Maccabiah Games, the Jewish Olympics, but refused permission for college basketball players. In a letter last July to Gaylord P. Harn- well, president of the University of Penn- sylvania, Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA, said that by refusing to ap- prove the basketball competition, the NCAA "hoped to persuade" the AAU to give up its fight to control the sport in the United States. The ECAC membership had been called into a special meeting in conjunction with the annual NCAA convention in Washing- ton to discuss the Langer case. Yale faces posible disciplinary action by the NCAA Council Thursday when it must explain to thit body ; x y it, p i .. C: d <,to go to the Maccabia Gam an ub uently used him initrol cn ehon. After Lanrer plyIh az~wo games, t.he EA: ( : :! cen- sured Yale and cidesd xlte saeh u to stop using him. "The Langcr case hasei ..n matter of principle . . L aney KI , ui. Y" le -s di.. rector of athletics, aid ri dy,. "ale wll not punish hi, by dcny in . hain th right to play basketball le. wet to the Mac- cabiah Games w~ith our blin and we're the guilty ones, not the bo '." Although Yale admittedly ioted_ NCAA and ECAC rules, the ce has become a moral issue-should a student be a pawn in the power sttug'le" and what Albert Twitchell, athletic dirce r at utgra Uni- verity, described as "nat ion'. clasic. "All anyone w~il und'stand" Twitchell said, "is we tried to punish a bo for going to another country and sceting a fine ex- perience out of it. This is too dlelicate a national case for a snap judvment." Yale, a mnember of the Ivy Lea e, re- ceived the unanimous support of the eight Ivy presidents last week in its dcision to play Langer. Booking nowi for winter .term Before 10 P.M. Jerry, 663-5812 After 10 P.M. [es, 663.-9133 Di SYDNEY, Australia (P) - At "I knor: I went very close, for 17 years of age, Debbie Meyer, a the award aist year," she said, schoolgirl from Sacramento, Calif., '"ad nauraly I was disappoint- has been around the world break- ed when I missed out. I jIust was ng swimming records, and now not thinking about it this year." she's sitting on top of it. She is competing hee in the New "It's great, really great," sh3 South )Wales wirnm~i ig cham;pion- gushed like any wide-eyed teen--