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Tremendous emotional strain lies behind what is now Article Nine of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's bylaws. The NCAA membership, at its 1978 national convention held in Atlanta last January, engaged in heated debate while hammering out a new version of Article Nine, the "Divisional Membership Criteria...
...results of this restructing plan, which Bob Murphy, the Ivy League and numerous other NCAA members opposed, had, on the surface, little impact. The old Division I was composed of 144 members. Its new equivalent, Division I-A, has 139. Because they could not meet the criteria established for eligibility in Division I-A, five schools dropped into I-AA. In addition, 28 Division II schools moved up to I-AA to form the small, first-year grouping...
...qualify for Division I-A, a school must sponsor at least eight varsity intercollegiate sports, including football in Division I, and must schedule at least 60 per cent of its football games against I-A opponents. In addition, the school must fulfill one of the following three criteria...
...basis of its private statements, disregarding (as in the case of Manufacturers Hanover) the bank's seemingly unsatisfactory publicly stated policy. It also provides Harvard with leeway in its interpretation--strict or loose--of the policy adopted by the bank. Harvard needs to define more clearly its criteria and procedures for evaluating institutions dealing with South Africa. Otherwise, the case-by-case evaluation will be nothing but a semblence of commitment to the already tenuous policy outlined in the Corporation report. The community cannot be satisfied with tacit private assurances...
...moral calculus that determines whether individuals or institutions should accept money they feel is tainted is ultimately a subjective, individual one. There are certainly no hard and fast rules to invoke in making the determination. But criteria can be employed, distinctions can be made...