Khayat was a dual-sport student-athlete in football and baseball while attending Mississippi. As a football player, he led the nation in scoring as a kicker in 1958 and 1959, in addition to earning academic all-America recognition. He helped the baseball squad capture two consecutive Southeastern Conference championships.

After a professional football career in the NFL that spanned from 1960 to 1964, Khayat returned to Mississippi to attend law school. Three years after graduating in 1966, he joined the law school's faculty. Later, Khayat was named associate law dean at the school and served as vice-chancellor for university affairs from 1984 to 1989.

Khayat has been chancellor at Mississippi since July 1995.

Christal, who replaces Marcy Weston of Central Michigan University, has been a baseball umpire since 1968 and has served as a football official since 1970. He worked 24 NCAA Division I baseball regionals and eight College World Series. Currently a Big 12 Conference football referee, Christal has been part of officiating crews for the 2002 Orange Bowl, which was the BCS national championship game, and the 1997 Sugar Bowl, which also was a national championship contest.

The 24th annual National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators Fall Forum is set for October 11-14 in Austin at the Hyatt Regency Austin on Town Lake.

The forum is the only national conference designed specifically for women athletics administrators. The convention lineup features seminars, round table discussions and three awards recognition events. In addition, networking opportunities and social activities also are planned.

The Division I Board of Directors amends legislation regarding Sunday competition and averts what would have been Division I's first override vote. The amendment modifying Proposal No. 98-32 allows schools with written policies against competition on a particular day for religious reasons to have their needs accommodated while establishing a waiver process for a sports committee to appeal the rule if it believes the success of the championship might be compromised.

The original legislation the Board adopted four months earlier eliminated the requirement that a championship schedule had to be adjusted to accommodate institutions with policies against Sunday competition. That action generated 99 requests from the Division I membership to override adoption of the legislation -- one shy of the total necessary to suspend the legislation but more than enough to require the Board to revisit the issue and to schedule an override vote at the 1999 Convention if no change was made.

The Division I Management Council also takes important steps during its summer 1998 meeting, approving two proposals designed to assist colleges and universities in meeting financial aid obligations as they apply to Title IX.

The proposals are of particular importance in light of a complaint filed with the Office for Civil Rights against 25 schools that the National Women's Law Center alleges did not meet the Title IX requirement that scholarship dollars must be substantially proportionate to the participation rates for men and women. Some of the 25 schools argued that NCAA legislative limits prevented them from complying with Title IX.

The Financial Aid Committee's review of grant limits concluded that the NCAA limits do not prevent compliance with Title IX at the current time but that consideration should be given to adjustments that would aid schools in complying.