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Administrative Committee minutes

1. Acting for the Council, the Administrative Committee:

a. Appointed Dennis A. Farrell, commissioner, Big West Conference, as District 8 chair of the Postgraduate Scholarship Committee, replacing Daniel L. Bridges, California Institute of Technology, no longer a member of the Council.

b. Appointed Paul Fernandez, baseball coach, Columbia University, to the Division I Baseball Committee, replacing Frederick J. Hill, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, declined reappointment to a second term; and appointed John Easterbrook, director of athletics, California State University, Fullerton, replacing David P. O'Brien, Long Beach State University, declined appointment.

c. Appointed Robert DeFelice, director of athletics, Bentley College, to the newly created Division II position on the Men's Ice Hockey Rules Committee.

d. Appointed the following three additional members of the Council to the Council Subcommittee on Initial-Eligibility Waivers: Arthur W. Cooper, faculty athletics representative, North Carolina State University; Edward I. "Ted" Leland, director of athletics, Stanford University; and Carol M. Dunn, director of athletics, California State University, Los Angeles.

e. Dissolved the Special Committee to Review Initial-Eligibility Standards and the Special Committee to Study Division II Athletics Certification, inasmuch as those committees have completed their charges.

f. Referred to the Council for consideration at its August meeting the request that, using its authority to adopt noncontroversial legislation, it revise Bylaw 17.14.5.3-(c) to include the sport of men's ice hockey as one of the sports in which Divisions II and III institutions are permitted to participate in one "season-ending" championship without including such competition in the institution's maximum contest limitation; noted that the sponsors of Proposal No. 73 for the 1996 Convention indicated that men's ice hockey inadvertently had been omitted from that proposal; but also noted that no mention had been made of that omission during the Convention proceedings; agreed that the Council should determine whether the revision was indeed noncontroversial; noted that legislation had been submitted for the 1997 Convention to accomplish this; and agreed that the effective date of this legislation should be immediate.

g. Using its authority to adopt noncontroversial legislation, agreed to amend Bylaw 21.3.20.1 as follows (bold-faced type indicates new wording; italicized type indicates wording removed): "The National Youth Sports Program Committee shall consist of five representatives from active members institutions or conferences of the Association with recent experience in the administration of a National Youth Sports Program, that sponsor National Youth Sports Programs or from member conferences of the Association, including two positions allocated for men, two allocated for women and one unallocated, and an appropriate number of ex officio members representing the federal government."

h. Noted that the College Football Association planned to transport several football student-athletes to a central location to tape a public-service announcement in connection with its Athletes Against Violence program; and noted that it had been determined that this activity would not render the student-athletes ineligible per Bylaw 12.5.1.1-(e).

4. Report of actions taken by the executive director per Constitution 4.3.2.

Acting for the Council:

Approved six summer basketball leagues (three for men, three for women and two for both men and women) per Bylaws 14.7.5.2 and 30.14, as reported in issues of The NCAA News.