The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 30, 1990 - Page 13 PENN STATE Continued from page 1 ty, but we haven't even added an eleventh school yet," Purdue Faculty Representative Phil Nelson said. "There's really no point in searching for a twelfth school when you are 4*not set on 11." Al Penn State, which some th'ought would want to continue its series against state-rival Pittsburgh, would not take an active role in the pro- cedure of adding a twelfth school. "I think it would be presumptuous of us to come into the Big Ten and try to run things," Thalman said. No matter how the Penn State- *Big Ten situation is resolved, the idea of conference expansion and realignment has been firmly en- trenched nationwide. Rumors of po- tential megaconferences in basketball and conference-hopping in general have emerged. Many speculate the Southeastern Conference may steal Texas and Texas A&M from the Southwest Conference and get football indepen- ;dents Miami (Fla.) and Florida State. Similar speculation would have Mi- ami and Florida State forming their own conference. Along similar lines, if Penn State is not admitted into the Big Ten, it will continue its search for an all-sports conference, said Paul tters, Penn State's director of fiscal and personnel planning for athletic administration. The most mind-boggling of all rumored megaconferences concerns a merging of the Big Ten, the Pacific- 10, the Big East, and the Atlantic Coast Conferences for basketball. Those four conferences contained 22 of the 64 NCAA men's tournament teams, including 10 of the top 16 seeds. Officials from the Pacific-10, the Big East, the Big Ten, and the ACC were all unavailable for comment. But certain athletic department per- sonnel within the Big Ten are not keen on the issue. "The rumor of the megaconfer- ence frightens me," Iowa Associate Athletic Director ChristinesGrant said. "It will lead to a huge separa- tion of the have and have-nots. I would much rather stay with the smaller conferences and stay within sight of each other." The whole idea of megaconfer- ences is being fueled by television, and thus by money, said Duderstadt. So it would seemingly be to Penn State's advantage to become a con- ference member in the near future. "I think it will become increasingly difficult to work as an independent in college athletics," Thalman said. However, at least for the time being, Penn State will have to grap- ple with that difficulty. MEGACONFERENS: En ging Rutgers Syracuse, or n brm PAC-1O Pittsburgh may join the B Tn Syracuse .0 BgEast :Xi:i: Rutgers .Pittsburgh Texas and Texas A&M, cu rently " in theJS'oiihwestConference, may migrate to the Southeastern Conference,(SEC). The Big Ten, Texas A&M PAC-10, Big East, es A Florida State and ACC are Texas talking of merging into a Miami and Florida State *Miami basketball could join the SEC or form megaconference. their own conference. Senate deni es aid to minlers WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate, by a razor-thin margin, turned back pleas for special aid to local miners yesterday, rejecting a measure Senate leaders and the White House said could have jeopardized broader clean air legislation. The $500 million assistance amendment was voted down 50 to 49 after five hours of debate during which supporters argued the miners needed help because they would be adversely affected by tougher air pollution controls. The measure was seen as the biggest remaining obstacle to passage of major air pollution control legislation that is scheduled for a final vote next Tuesday. A similar bill is pending in a House committee. The government has estimated more than 5,000 miners of high- sulfur coal are likely to lose their jobs as Midwest utilities switch t9 other fuels to meet new pollution requirements in the coming years. The narrow vote was a victory for Senate leaders of both parties George Mitchell (D-Maine) and Bob Dole (R-Kansas) - as well as the Bush administration which had opposed the assistance proposal as too expensive and discriminatory against other workers. The White House had threatened to withdraw support from any bill that exceeded the current estimate.j $21 billion-a-year cost. BAM Continued from Page 1 very much linked to BAM I because we felt the grievances demanded by students in 1970 had not been dealt with," said graduate student Barbara Ransby, a founding member of the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR), a multi-racial group which played a leading role in BAM III. Ransby said although an Office of Minority Affairs was established as a result of BAM III and "incremental progress" has been made since then, "the University, as a whole, has a long way to go." "The central issue in 1970 and of 1990 is one of access," Ransby said. "The question is in what ways is the University going to fundamentally change itself to make it accessible to students of color." BAM I demanded 10 percent Black enrollment by the 1973-1974 school year, which would match the percentage of Blacks statewide. Black enrollment at the University peaked 1976 at 7.7 percent. Since then, it dropped to a low of 4.9 percent in 1983 and now stands at 6.5 percent. 1, BETTER THAN THE BATHROOM WALLS! .--' Give your message VCZ&Oa1 Touch.... a Y ,Y .. _ , rt1. f i i See news happen? Call the Daily: 764-055 2 Personals 764-0557 Read Gotta Love It Daily Sports Celeirate Rpril [0oolS Ua3 wit h sona tano, the CLown (alias Rev. Floyd Shaffer) at CampuS Chapell 1236 Washtenaw Ct. (One block south of CCl8B/ Geddes and Washtenaw} 668-7421/662.2402 Parking in the UM Church Street parking lot. un daqj, April 1 10:00 a.m. Worship: "Clowns and Other Fools for Christ's Sake" speaker Rev. 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