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By MARCIA MERKER
For most colleges and univer-
sities in the U.S. today, the
costs of intercollegiatedathletics
are insurmountable. In order to
lessen this financial burden, the
Big Ten set limits on grants
and traveling squad sizes. The
NCAA established barriers last
August, in hopes of alleviating
the problem. It is questionable
whether or not this conference
was successful.
In recent years the expense
involved in maintaining a first
rate athletic program has been
in the millons of dollars. Mich-
igan's faculty representative to
the NCAA and Big Ten, Marcus
Plant, commented, "Intercolle-
giate sports are costing too
much money and yet everyone's
afraid to cut first."
The Big Ten had had limits
for traveling squad sizes, grants
and recruiting even though the
rest of the nation lay boundless,
creating an unfair situation.
When the NCAA Council on
Economcs, of which President
Robben Fleming is a member,
decided to call a special con-
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vention on economics for Aug-
ust, there was a sigh of relief
at Big Ten headquarters.
Durng the two-day congress
in Chicago, the eight hundred
plus representatives discussed
52 proposals and tabled 21 for
the annual convention in Janu-
ary. Most of the ideas for divi-
sion one, the larger programs,
paralleled the Big Ten's past
rules on economic boundaries.
Guidelines were established on
grants. Michigan proposed a 90-
95 limit on number of football
grants and the larger amount
was approved. Last year, the
Big Ten reduced the maximum
number of awards to 105. In
other words, the cut didn't sig-
nificantly effect the Big Ten
but brought the rest of the na-
tion down to its level.
Basketball followedthersame
pattern, as did the other var-
sity sports. The Big Ten rule
for minor sport equivalencies
had been twenty per year and
the NCAA passed 80 per four-
year period.
Canham explained that the
I procedures for discussing the
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traveling squad size led to the
48 limit. First Michigan pro-I
posed a 54-man team and some
groups, thinking that each team
should have the same number
of players, voted the proposal
down. Then came the sugges-
tion for 60-man squads and that
was defeated as many felt that
60 was too extravagant. So the
48-man unit passed as it was
the remaining proposal.1
Basketball squad limits are
stingy and possibly very cost-
ly. As Canham pointed out,
"Sometimes when people start1
on this path, they overdo it.
Take basketball, for instance.
They restricted t r a v e lii n g
squads to ten. Fifteen are on
scholarships. At home, they
can't even dress two of these."1
Plant believed that seven was'
too small a limit of equivalen-
cies for gymnastics while ice'
hockey got twenty. Michigan's
Athletic Director Don Canham
said, "In the past, only money-
making sports got scholarships'
and the minor sports depended
on money from the alumni in
order to give scholarships. We're
returning to those days. From
that standpoint, what gymnas-
tics got was adequate."
Except for the legislation
rate I
passed on grants, Michigan
looked at the NCAA confer-
ence wth a dim view. Its first
objection was squad sizes. InI
football, home squads were
limited to sixty players. This
does not decrease costs but
merely prevents the mediocre
player from dressing for the
games.
Recruiting was the real sore:
point. Both Schembechler and
Canham remarked that this was
where the conference really
could have cut down on ex-
penses, but failed miserably.
The rules that the convention
did come up with are so com-
plicated that it takes a lawyer
to interpret them.
Since August, threats have
been made to the NCAA and
some of them carried out on
the basis of its decisions at the
convention. The most publicized
occurrence has been Alabama's
Bear Bryant bringing charges
against the NCAA on the size
of traveling squads.
The most serous reaction
concerns the seven major con-
ferences breaking away from
the NCAA. There are two di-
visions in the NCAA. Michigan
is in division one along with
15 other schools. About forty
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to fifty of these schools are
actually major in operation.
Canham pointed out, "There
are a wide span of schools in
our division. We've got to have
meetings to change that. There
should be absolute autonomy for
the So schools in the seven con-
ferences.
"Dvisions are not the answer.
Many division two teams moved
to one because that's where the
football money is. We've got to
completely reorganize. Maybe a
very strict method of separa-
tion, like a $2,000,000 budget."
NCAA President Steven Horne
has proposed some welfare bills
for the January convention. He
says that it is the responsibility
of the big schools to support the
small schools. All bowl, basket-
ball tournament, and television
money should be spread evenly
among the NCAA members.
Canham says that if the small
schools bulldoze this plan
through, which they could with
their numbers, then the seven
major conferences will with-
draw and form their
ization.
own organ-
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RACE AND IQ
3 p.m.-ART SWARTZ, Math, U. of Michigan
"THE POLITICS OF STATISTICS:
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By TOM CAMERON
While many athletic depart-
ments are struggling to stay out
of the red, the Michigan ath-
letic department seemed to be
flaunting their wealth by buying
a new, greener $100,000 carpet-
ing this year for the Wolverine
playpen.,
But wait a minute . . . wasn't
the Tartan Turf first laid on
the field supposed to last for-
ever? Six years, after all, is
not exactly forever.
"WE ACTUALLY did need
the new one this year," ex-
plained Charles Harris, admin-
istrative assistant at the ath-
letic building. "The old one
was coming apart at the
seams."
Although coming apart at the
seams does not sound like a
$100,000 crisis, it does make
playing a rough game of foot-
ball a lot rougher.
"What happened," continued
Harris,"is that the sun chang-
ed the chemistry of the turf,
and in effect, shrunk the car-
pet. This exposed the -rubber
substance underneath the field
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"RACE, IQ, HEREDITY: SCIENTIFIC RACISM?"
{ "TORTURE, BRAZILIAN STYLE"
"Torture is still widely used in Brazil, despite pledges made
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CHILE, BRAZIL-UPDATE
Discussion with FRED MORRIS and KEN LANGTON, Pol.
Sci. Prof., recently returned from a visit to Chile.
Sponsored by Wesley Foundation, Henry Martin Loud
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at the seams, which hardened more than $16 a square yard.
under the sun. But the payments are made
over a period of four years.
WITH SEAMS every five "Having an artificial turf
feet, the field would have been costs about the same as a real
too dangerous to play on. surface," Canham said. "It
But Athletic Director Don costs about $20,000 a year to
Canham came to the rescue and keep up agrass field, and
kept the Wolverine football! we're guaranteed that with the
team safe by calling upon the artificial field."
3M Company to put down an- i Unfortunately, the old Tartan
other Tartan surface. Turf Surface couldn't be saved
"The problem we had was or sold for somebody's recrea-
that at the time we didn't know tion room as an official Wol-
the field should be covered," he verine. The old carpet is now a
said. "The ultra-violet rays lot of mulch, shredded up by a
from the sun finally got to it. machine into thin, ragged strips
The new surface, though, will of no use.
be covered."
The new carpet, made by the "IT'S THE WAY they have to
3M Company, is called Third take the old snrfAce off," Har-
Generation TartanTurf, a direct ris explained. "The field was
descendant of the First Genera- clued down, so what they had
tion Turf that .lasted six years to do was come along with a
before needing replacement. machine which tore the carnet
The Third Generation Turf is ,away. We couldn't even save
guaranteed for five years, but it for patch work. However, we
Canham feels "it should last us do have some of the Third Gen-
between seven and ten years." eration turf for match work.
TO COVER THE playing area The athletic department will
on the field cost "about $100,- also have another major ex-
000," which comes to a little pense coming up soon. Within a
year or so, the Tartan surface
on the practice field will also
need replacing. "The problem
with that is not going to be the
field splitting," Harris noted.
"The problem is going to be
wear."
Anyways, for the next five
years, we can be confident the
turf seams will not split. Now
. . . if only we could say the
same about the pass defense.
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