Cycling club starts season with 40-km The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 29, 1990 - Page 9 UM Dearborn may join NCAA by Andrew Brown Daily Sports Writer Many students ride their bikes around campus everyday. But how many of them are up to the level of a 40-kilometer race? That is the test put in front of the Michigan Cycling Club as they host the Michigan Criterion Bike Race Sunday. The race will take place at Runway Plaza just south of I-94. In its second year, the Michigan club has grown from eleven to forty members. The team is one of seventeen members of the Midwest Collegiate Cycling Conference, which is comprised entirely of clubs. Other schools in the confer- ence include Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State, Ball State, Northwestern, and Notre Dame. Cycling is both an individual and a team sport which is broken down into three categories, men's A, men's B, and a women's division. The top 15 riders for each category accumulate points for their team, as well as for themselves. But the team is the number one priority among its bikers. "A single rider will not beat a good team. We focus on team goals first," said Brian Block, former president of the club and this weekend's race director. Last year the Cycling Club placed 6th in the conference. This year the club is looking for improvement starting with the race this weekend, the first event of the rather short 5 race season which extends to the end of April. "Our goal is to win the con- ference and to go on to nationals." Block said. "We also hope to expand the size of the club along the way." Scott Robinson, the current club President, also has a positive out- look on the season. "We have a good shot at the con-ference," he said. "Our person- nel has improved immensely and is be-coming more serious and directed toward racing everyday. We have a strong core that could really make some noise." The race this weekend will host teams such as Kentucky, Indiana, and Purdue. It contains $600 worth of prizes with $100 going to the winner. Washtenaw Cycle and Fit- ness sponsors the club and has provided $300 for the upcoming race. Block looks for an exciting day of racing. "We have at least ten riders who could easily win men's A. It should be interesting," he said. by Jared Entin Daily Sports Writer April, the month of admissions, is on the frontier, and with it the hopes and dreams of seniors across the nation are on hold. But this year, something different is happen- ing. An institution, the University of Michigan- Dearborn Athletic Department, awaits approval to join the NCAA. It needs to clear two potential snags. The first obstacle the athletic department must hurdle is the University Affairs Department, which can allow the school to apply to the NCAA for admission into national athletic divis- ions. This decision will be announced next Wed- nesday, when the University Affairs Department holds an open forum. If Dearborn gains this approval, it would then begin biting its fingernails waiting for the NCAA to say yes or no. The earliest the school would here from the NCAA would be mid-April, and if accepted, their actual admittance wouldn't begin until next January. However, acceptance is not as easy as it sounds. The Dearborn administration must allow the athletic department to apply to the NCAA before the school can even think about stringent NCAA requirements. Although Sidney Fox, a member of the Dearborn athletic department, said "We have a great deal of student support," he later stressed certain "cost factors" would be weighed heavily before the University would take any action. Though some people in the administration are doubtful the university will even apply to the NCAA, some Dearborn students are hopeful. Members of the ice hockey team and the men's and women's fencing team are among the most hopeful because as Fox said, "they are the two most thriving teams." But the impact would also be felt elsewhere in the Athletic Department. In order to attain the NCAA Division II standards, the school would have to start up a women's tennis team for the spring season. However, Fox explained "I don't foresee any problems given the strength of our athletics." Although there is no NCAA scrutinizing board to come in with a fine-tooth comb to pick over the athletic department, Dearborn must prove the school has followed special academic and athletic standards for the past two years. Such standards include the number of scholarships given out and certain scheduling requirements of competing against NCAA schools. The ripples of change would stretch further than just the Dearborn campus. If Dearborn joins the NCAA, the Central Collegiate Hockey Asso- ciation might one day receive an application from Dearborn. "It (the CCHA) would be the next logical step, after a few years of being an independent," Fox said. However, if the NCAA denied Dearborn ad- mission, hockey coach Tom Anastos believes that program, "would dissolve to a smaller level. "A number of them (the players) would trans- fer, although they would have no special alleg- iance to the Ann Arbor campus," he said. For now, though, the Dearborn athletic de- partment will just have to await the decision on its future like high school seniors all over the- country. UAC Presents Up withPopla. WAD I[WORM COME ALIV[ ON 9AGI. Friday & Saturday, March 30 & 31 -7:30 pm St. Mary's Auditorumw W. Elm St Monroe Tickets: $10 Adults; $7 Students and Seniors TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE CHAMBER OFFICE 242-3366 THE INTERNATIONAL CAST - ON WORLD TOUR UP WITH PEOPLE INTERVIEWS TO BE HELD AT UNION! The Anderson Room at the Michigan Union 9:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. 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