4 OPINION Tuesday, October 25, 1983 The Michigan Daily Canham on rule changes and mini-gyms 4 The NCAA is gearing up for what could be an important showdown at its annual ,meeting between member schools'. presidents looking to get more control of the' egroup's rule-making process and those who want to see little or no change. The two -nost controversial proposals involve set- fing up a new committee of presidents to propose rule changes and a move to review Rule 48, which sets minimum academic guidelines for freshperson athletic scholar-' ship eligibility. Daily associate sports editor Ron Pollack recently spoke with the king of Michigan athletics, Athletic Director Don Canham, -about the NCAA debates, and about the tate of Michigan athletics. And guess what? There's also tentative plans to do some more building and rebuilding around Hoover and State. I think some other presidents are disappoin- ted or not satisfied with the administration with the Kansas City office. And the A.C.E. isn't satisfied with the make-up or role of the NCAA council. Those are just things you hear they are considering or talking about. The NCAA council is the final authority in the NCAA. Some of the presidents are a little concerned with how the council is selected and the make- up of the council itself. So there might be legislation in those areas. Daily - Why don't you think there are enough votes to change Rule 48? Canham-The vote on Rule 48 was very pronounced. There was a very, very heavy number in favor of Rule 48 and I don't think that many people have changed their minds. We all agreed that we wanted to do something more stringent than a "C" average to get an NCAA scholarship. That philosophy still prevails. That's why I don't think it'll get changed. I think the elimination of freshmen eligibility has a very tough road to go. I don't think they will eliminate freshmen. I say that because you're going to have to increase scholarships and spend more money rather than less if you eliminate freshmen, because if you pull 30 freshmen off of our football squad of five off of our basketball team we don't have enough players. So you have to increase scholarships to work that thing out. Daily-At the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics Meeting in late September you seemed much more optimistic about a change in the freshmen eligibility rule. What caused this change? Canham-To tell you the honest truth, after talking to people and reading things, I don't think that there's any clear cut answer on that. I think it will be a tough road, a very close vote. At the Board meeting we'd only talked to the Pac Ten people and some of the Big Ten people. Now some of the Big Ten schools aren't in favor of eliminating freshmen eligibility. It's not unanimous. We've been opposed to fresh- men eligibility since the very beginning. I can't justify a kid playing in three football games before classes start. I just don't think that's justifiable academically. They don't know where the library is but are playing in front of 100,000 people. If we're supposed to be playing with student athletes, the boy is not even a student yet. School hasn't started yet. He may not even have registered yet. You just can't justify that. Michigan uses very few freshmen, because that's our philosophy. We'd rather have him get a good foundation academically so we can have him around for Canham: It's not likely we'll ever add seats to Michigan Stadium so we'll eventually have to keep increasing ticket prices as you need more revenue. We won't increase them next year. No way we'll do that. We'd like to go at least two years, three or four if we can. prices as you need more revenue. We won't in- crease them next year. No way we'll do that. We'd like to go at least two years, three or four. if we can. Daily - At a board meeting during tht previous school year, you mentioned that you were looking into a radio or TV show for Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder. Has anything come of that? Canham - Yea, he's got television. He's got a television show this year. I don't know th' details of it yet, but I just talked to him and he" said it's coming along pretty well, and he's all, set. We don't know what channel in Detroit, butt it looks like one of the major channels will pick" it up. There's been enough out state and maybe Detroit that he's definitely got a show. And1t will be in this market but I can't say which 4 station. Daily - Will this help the basketball team Id recruiting? Canham - I think it does. I think it hel~pW Bill. One of the reasons (football coach Bo) Schembechler recruits so well is he's an inter-' nationally known figure. You walk down the street in Los Angeles and ask who Bo Schem bechler is and a great percentage of the people, can probably tell you. In fairness, Bill is not- that well known. So a show, or publicity, like,, that helps. Daily - Do you have any other ideas in the works? Canham - We're toying with the idea of building another press box to the .(football) stadium. But the* swimming pool is a higher' priority. But before too many years I hope We can get the press box done. It would be one just like the one on the other side of the field. We need more press area, but we also would have sky boxes, VIP boxes that we could market.' That's how you pay for it, by renting the boxes out to corporations and things like that. If you build that, we figure we can build between 60 and 80 boxes and rent them for $5,000 a season. So you're talking $300,000 or $400,000 a year. So it wouldn't take very long to pay for it and then you start making money. But that's just something we're talking about: None of this may ever come to pass. You've got to keep planning for the future. So far what we've planned for we've been able to get done. Track and Tennis; the ice rink, the football building, the new track outdoor, renovation of baseball. That's always on the planning board years before it's done. Dialogue is an occasional feature of the Opinion Page. Daily - Collegepresidents are trying to gain control of rule-making policies in inter- collegiate athletics. What is your view on this? Canham-I think periodically that happens and sometimes the presidents, a few of them, go to the (NCAA) convention and talk on the floor. I think the difference in this situation T er what has happened in the past is you have e A.C.E. and a couple other presidential roups who are going to submit legislation. hey'll probably send some of their own i presentatives to discuss this legislation on tle floor. Now what legislation they'll submit i as yet to be determined. One of them is going' tp be on the elimination of the freshman rule. 41so there's another group that thinks we ought tp take another look at Rule 48. The specific 1 gislation -I can't give you much on because it ljasn't been filed yet. Some Presidents think t at the board scores might be too high i itially, that it should be phased in. But I don't t ink there will be enough votes, frankly, to t ange Rule 48. I just don't think there are ough votes there. I think the presidents yave a lot of impact. /,!K (tuf11t >< four years. Daily-In the fiscal year ending in June, the athletic department showed a profit of $61,595.73, down from $260,646.98 the previous year. What caused this decline? Canham - We put in artificial turf in Michigan Stadium. That's what we do with our surplus. We have to put in a new roof on Crisler Arena one of these days. The University isn't going to do it. The state isn't going to do it. So if we do generate a profit, we update our facilities. The disparity between the two years is the artificial turf that we put in. Daily - What the other additions or repairs does the athletic department have in the works? Canham - The University's plant depar- tment has a"-proposal that they're doing a study on and seeing if it's financially feasible to build a new swimming pool. That's what we really need. Then we would take this swimming pool (Matt Mann Pool) and make a gymnasium for women out of it. We'd take out some of the seats and have a nice mini-gym which we don't have. See everything we have to do at Crisler Arena and it costs us $300 a day to turn the lights on at that place. And we can't have a wrestling match and a gymnastics meet going on at the same time. Either for the men or women. So we would make a mini-gym which would be terrific. It would be closer to the campus for the students. You could even visualize women's basketball games in there. It would be a basketball court size. Maybe volleyball. Gymnastics for sure. Wrestling is a possibility. It would seat 2,500 people. The only place we have for the pool is the tennis courts that we haven't used for years on the south side of the intramural building. You have everything there. Easy access, close to the campus and plenty of parking. I think we have just about run out of space here. We've built an awful lot of buildings. The Track and Tennis Building, the football fieldhouse. We don't have a heck of a lot of land on the athletic campus. Daily - At the last board meeting you spoke of football ticket prices possibly being in- creased. When will that happen? Canham - What I said was it's not likely that we'll ever add seats to Michigan Stadium so we'll eventually have to keep increasing ticket LETTERS TO THE DAILY .r - -- n -_±9_- Sst ansi an Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Reagan gives in too much . . 64 . 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor; MI 48109 Vol. XCIV-No. 42, Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Marines should depart H OW EASY AND at the same time difficult it is to say, "Bring the Marines home." But it must be said. It was a costly mistake - and a mistake with which we agreed - to send the Marines to Beirut with no defined role, no specific respon- sibilities, and worst of all, little or no chance of gaining a peaceful set- tlement. As one Marine said after the bomb blast that killed at least 191 of his comrades Sunday, "I only wish President Reagan would pull us out." The Marines have learned the hard way that those in Lebanon who do not want a peaceful settlement will con- tinue these attacks. And as long as the United States is represented there, those factions will attack the United States. Though removing the U.S. presence in Beirut risks destabilizing the situation even more, the only outcome of keeping a military force will be more dead U.S bodies. The deadly factions that perpetrate these acts will find ways to continue them. If the marines are able to prevent suicide drivers from ramming car bombs into a command post or an embassy (as happened in April), the terrorists will exploit another weakness. Factions still rule Lebanon. Until they either kill each other or suddenly decide to negotiate a political set- tlement, Lebanon will continue to be ruled by faction and terrorism. U.S. Marines in Beirut aren't going to change that, they only provide target practice. Taking the U.S. military presence out of Lebanon does not prevent the U.S. government from seeking a negotiated solution. Talks scheduled to begin in Geneva in a week can con- tinue without Marines in Beirut Inter- national Airport. The longer the Marines stay, the harder it will be to pull them out. To the Daily: Your editorial last week on ar- ms control ("Missle talk," Daily, October 13) was interesting. In it, you state that recent events have shown that the United States has gained the "upper hand" in the START talks with the Soviets. About a year ago, it was being urged that Reagan concede key points because of his weak bargaining position. What mysterious circumstance caused this turn of events?' Has the nuclear freeze movement, and its mouthpieces Gary Hart, Alan Cranston, Ted Kennedy, and Jane Fonda, convinced the world of America's moral superiority? Has the Soviet nuclear arsenal become any less fearsome? There are two reasons for this remarkable switch, First, the people of Great Britain and West Germany have elected gover- nments dedicated to deterrence, and to the installation of the Cruise and Pershing missiles later this year. Second, Reagan's determination to spend whatever is necessary to match the Soviets and his firm but reasonable stan- ce at the bargaining table, have made it clear that Andropov will not come away with an agreement tilted strongly in his favor. Now the Daily suggests that Reagan concede more than he already has to get an agreement. It seems to me that he has con- ceded quite a bit, and gotten nowhere. Even though I'm in favor of reasonable concessions to secure the worthy goal of stop- ping the arms race, it is unlikely that the Soviets will settle for less than the keys to the shop. Why? The forces advocating unilateral disarmament are working hard in this country to elect a president beholden to them in 1984. 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The workers of the world have common interests as a class in uniting to get rid of their respec- tive ruling classes and their class systems in favor of socialist in- dustrial democracy advocated by the Socialist Labor Party. Under such a society the worker- producers would democratically control and manage the economy in the interests of all. People should resist the efforts of the prised of that fact-I wonder how long the Soviet bureaucratic state would last! --Archie Sim October 18 BLOOM COUNTY URING THE NATIONALLY tele- vised 'M' football game Saturday some fan held up a sign saying "Bo Schembechler for President." Wouldn't that be great. Every time the Soviets broke off strategic arms negotiations or rejected a U.S. proposal, President Schembechler and Western European leaders could arouse both continents into a massive exchange of bullshit... bullshit... bull- shit" across the Atlantic Ocean. What a way to improve relations among NATO nations. LT'S E 8i6 A Y! 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