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...usually with voting power. In 1968, Hesburgh proclaimed that he would expel 1,000 students before permitting girls to visit in the dorms; a year later, he accepted a student-faculty committee recommendation to allow limited visits. Paradoxically, he pleased old grads by letting the football team play in postseason bowl games -but chiefly because the $200,000 income could be used to finance scholarships for blacks and Spanish-speaking students. In the past six months, he has shed five of his off-campus jobs. Last year the A.A.U.P. reconsidered and gave him that academic freedom award...
NATIONAL INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT (CBS, 2-4 p.m.). Finals of the 31st annual postseason tournament pitting two of the nation's top college teams against each other...
...enduring fascinations of the postseason playoffs is the way the pros- except for football- enjoy making monkeys of the experts when big money is at stake. Take hockey. At the end of the 70-game season, the league leaders are rewarded with $2,250 per man. Then the first four teams meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for $5,250 per man-and all bets are off. Last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs walloped the Montreal Canadiens for their fourth Stanley Cup in six years. Only once in that time have they finished No. 1 in regular season play...
N.I.T. BASKETBALL (CBS, 2-4 p.m.). Finals of the 30th annual National Invitation Tournament, college basketball's oldest postseason event, from Madison Square Garden...
...games in the race for the regular season Eastern Division championship. But last week they beat the 76ers for the fourth time in seven games this season, 113-112 -and there is no reason to suspect that they can't do it again in next month's postseason playoffs. True, Russell makes mistakes: in one game, he was fined for forgetting to call a required time out (thereby costing the TV sponsor a commercial); in another, he sent in a substitute without removing the player he was supposed to substitute for -giving Boston six men on court instead...