Conferences: The Pennsylvania Athletic Conference will maintain 12 full-time members with the addition in 2007 of Centenary College (New Jersey) and College of Notre Dame (Maryland). Centenary, a member of the Skyline Conference, offers 12 sports sponsored by the PAC, while Notre Dame (Maryland), currently competing in the Atlantic Women’s Colleges Conference, will compete in seven league sports. Officials at both schools said PAC membership is a good match both athletically and academically. "We know the students who participate in intercollegiate athletics enhance their educational experience," said Ken Hoyt, Centenary president. "We look forward to active participation in the PAC, with institutions that share our commitment to student-athletes." Notre Dame (Maryland) Athletics Director Scot Reisinger said PAC membership gives his school "an outstanding opportunity to compete with institutions that have similar academic and athletic philosophies." The two schools will replace departing PAC members Arcadia University and Wesley College. The league also has two associate members in men’s lacrosse, but one of those schools, Villa Julie College, will join Wesley as a member of the Capital Athletic Conference. Arcadia is joining the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation and Freedom and Middle Atlantic Conferences ... Four Upper Midwest Athletic Conference institutions that sponsor football will play the sport as affiliate members of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Conference beginning with the 2008 season. Crown College; Martin Luther College; the University of Minnesota, Morris; and Northwestern College (Minnesota) will join with five current SLIAC members and with Eureka College, which will join the league this fall, with the expectation that the conference will become eligible for automatic qualification to the Division III Football Championship in 2010. "The four Minnesota schools are very much like our schools in size, character, mission and athletics philosophy," said Rich Meckfessel, SLIAC commissioner. "This is a great step forward for our conference, especially in giving the more than 300 football student-athletes at our schools the opportunity to compete for a conference championship and a berth in the NCAA playoffs. Even the four SLIAC schools that do not play football are enthusiastic about this." The 10 schools will be divided into two divisions, with the four UMAC members joining with Principia College to form the North division and Eureka joining with Blackburn College, Greenville College, MacMurray College and Westminster College (Missouri) to form the South division. The action is a swap of sorts: Blackburn, Principia and Westminster currently are playing as UMAC affiliate members in football. Eureka, Greenville and MacMurray currently play in the Illini-Badger Intercollegiate Football Conference, which will disband after the 2007 season. Beginning in 2008, division winners will play each other for the league championship as part of a day of five same-site games matching each division’s teams. The first year’s games will be played at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, and the league hopes to continue playing there and also play in St. Louis in alternating years.