NCAA News Archive - 2003

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Aug 18, 2003 9:26:50 AM

The NCAA News

Calendar

August 18	Division II Budget and Finance Committee	Indianapolis

September 5-7	Division II Student-Athlete Leadership Action Academy	Atlanta

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

ACE plans regional seminars to assess Supreme Court decisions

The American Council on Education will conduct four seminars to assess the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving the admissions process at the University of Michigan.

The seminars will be at San Francisco's Airport Marriott, September 19; Atlanta's Renaissance Concourse Hotel, September 24; Boston's Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, September 29; and Chicago's Sofitel O'Hare, September 30.

Those interested in acquiring more information may visit www.acenet.edu/seminars .

PLAYING RULES

Effective date of language rule in soccer to be delayed

A zero-tolerance policy for offensive, profane, insulting or abusive language developed by the Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee will not be in effect for the 2003 playing season because of differences among the divisional approval bodies.

The Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet, under its authority to examine rules proposals affecting the "image of the sport," did not favor the proposal. The Divisions II and III Championships Committees supported the measure.

The Management Councils and presidential governance groups in each division ratified the championships committee positions, which means the proposal will be sent to the recently created Playing Rules Oversight Committee. That group will be asked to provide a recommendation to the NCAA Executive Committee, which will consider the matter at its October meeting.

The Executive Committee is charged by the NCAA Constitution with resolving differences among the divisions.