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,. ' f: . | % iS^SP USC guard Lisa Diaz looks for roor Diaz picked up 14 points in the win. Ladies Continuec travel to Knoxville, Tenn. on Thursday to face No. 2 Tennessee. The Lady Volunteers rallied from a 12-point half time deficit last year in Columbia to defeat USC, 85-80. "We should be able to match up against them, but it's going to be a tough game," Hunt said of the game with Tennessee. "If we play like we did tonight and keep our composure we can win it." Sports sho Abdul-Jabbar tops NBA scoring list LOS ANGELES ? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his last year with the Los Angeles Lakers, began the 1988-89 NBA season with 37,639 points, the most in league history. His total points were more than each of the opening day rosters of 14 clubs in the leaeue. In fact, his record was greater than the entire rosters of two teams combined, Indiana and Miami. Laimbeer another Charlie Hustle? DETROIT ? Detroit Piston center Bill Laimbeer is rated one of the most aggressive players in the NBA. He loves the role. Laimbeer is booed constantly in the arenas of opposing clubs. "I think it has something to do O How We Need You! O type blood is rare and special. GIVE BLOOD, PLEASE! + American Red Cross SC Regional Blood Services Clubyh Five Ladie T07 TwSflc 5 iligM. Select! 716 Si 11 'Si lk wl m V V lmh HP* N f ^ BHEEI BM wr '~" n to dribble in the Lady Gamecocks 86-52 / from page 8 VIRGINIA TECH (52) Green 1-5 2-4 4, Sallade 3-9 5-6 11, Byrne 9-15 2-3 20, Michel 2-3 1-2 6, Garber 4-11 0-0 9, Walvius 1-1 0-0 2, Tonkin 0-2 0-0 0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Bergmann 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-2 0, Justice 0-0 0-0 0, Jamierson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-47 10-17 52. USC (86) Hunt 9-13 3-3 21, Parker 2-6 6-6 10, Banner 4-9 2-4 10, David 1-4 0-0 2, Diaz j rrs with people not being comfortable with competitive types," he said. "Pete Rose, as a player, was just doing his job but he turned off some people because of his aggressive style of play." Carter gets psyched for big contests MINNEAPOLIS ? Anthony Carter, the loose and limber touchdown maker of the Minnesota Vikings, loves to play in big games. The sure-handed wide receiver says he gets psyched up for the important games. "I know it's a great feeling to be playing for big stakes. It's the main reason you're a ball player. There is nothing else in the world like it," he said. Morrow donates Olympic medals MISSION, Kan. ? The NCAA Cot a neu JACKETS CAPS "Anything Textile 791 warn i Point's Newest I s Apparel Store Announces 0% off 3d Ladies Fall & Winter Merchandise aluda 765-9972 f v 1 JOHN MIL LS III/ The Gamecock Metro victory over the Lady Hokies. 1 < < 6-8 2-2 14, Hawkins 4-8 2-3 10, Middleton > 5-11 0-0 11, Joyner 2-7 0-0 4, Gardner 2-6 S 0-0 4, McMillian 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 35-72 1 15-20 86. < Halftime ? USC 43, Virginia Tech 25. f 3-point field goals ? Virginia Tech 2-6 (Michel 1-2, Garber 1-4), USC 1-3 (Mid- I dleton 1-3). Rebounds ? Virginia Tech 31 I (Sallade 12), USC 37 (Hunt 10). Assists ? i Virginia Tech 9 (Green, Garber 3), USC r 24 (Parker 7). Total fouls ? Virginia ? Tech 13, USC 18. A ? 1,639. 1 : c reported that Bobby Morrow, the c sprinter who won three gold medals in the 1956 Olympic Games in v Melbourne, has donated each one of E the awards to a different institution. <j Morrow sent one of the medals to g his alma mater, Abilene Christian f University. Another was donated to c the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the third to the n Texas Hall of Fame. fc Morrow won the James E. Sullivan a Award as the outstanding amateur f, athlete for 1956. Magic sympathizes ? with sidelined Bird a a LOS ANGELES ? Magic tl Johnson, the miracle man of the Los " Angeles Lakers, says he knows exact- si ly what Larry Bird, the injured Boston Celtic star, is going through b on the sidelines. t( Johnson missed the better part of b the 1980-81 season with a knee injury. ci /s tip?Call The Cba sm -5638 GOT Ml We urgently need people to aid in medical researchhad mono within the pas qualify for $100 per weel time. Call 254-6537. r^T\ Serolofi 1 2719 Middlebi wr Columbia Serologicals 254 USC professor NCAA Propos By DAVID CARAVIELLO Staff writer The politics of the National Collegiate Athletic Association have lone been criticized hv coaches and th*? decision of the 83rd NCAA convention on Jan. 13th to adopt Proposition 42 has added more fuel to the fire. The proposition, passed on a 163-154 vote after being narrowly defeated the day before, affects the most elementary of questions facing college athletics ? the question of eligibility. It will eventually replace Proposition 48, a policy that the NCAA put into effect four years ago. That ruling mandated a minimum 2.0 high school grade point ratio or a 700 score on the SAT in order for a freshman to be eligible for scholarship in collegiate athletics. At the time, the proposal was widely criticized and was charged with being detrimental to blacks. Under Proposition 42, which will take effect in 1990, the eligibility requirements will be strengthened, and both the 2.0 GPR and the 700 SAT score will be required for eligibility. Already, the new proposition has come under a eonsiderable amount of fire, with head coaches John Thompson of Georgetown, John Chaney of Temple and Dale Brown of Louisiana State holding the big guns. The main objection the coaches have with Proposition 42 is not with the the 2.0 high school GPR, but with the 'equired 700 SAT score. "I'm in support of a core curriculum. I'm in support of i 2.0," Thompson said. "But I'm not in favor of SAT scores which have been proven to be culturally biasid. .. I feel it (the SAT) is a discriminatory thing, especially for a kid who is at a low socio-economic level." In protest of the ruling, Thompson staged a three-day valkout, while his assistants coached the Hoyas. Thompson walked off the court before a game with Boston Colege and also missed a game with Providence before being tssured by NCAA officials that the ruling would be re :valuated. An even more vocal opponent of the new policy is Tem)le head coach John Chaney, who has charged that the lew proposition is racist. Charging that the new rule was nstigated "by racist presidents," Chaney, also a vehenent opponent of Proposition 48, said that he would try inything "humanly possible" to change the new rule. "We have fought it in the face of racist coaches and acist presidents from its inception and knew that when acism takes flight, it continues to fly," Chaney said. Dale Brown of LSU, the final member of the so-called 'committee of three" fighting the new proposition, was lownright angry when he heard of the NCAA's tightening >f eligibility requirements. "Once again, the NCAA has demonstrated that it is without compassion when dealing with human beings," Irown said. "I am shocked and saddened at this incessant lesire to label kids from the poorer strata as losers in the ame of life. The most important rule for all of us to ollow is that of respecting human dignity, and the NCAA ertainly has not followed that rule." "A youngster that did nothing illegal, but failed to neet a standard test score, is saved from the guillotine, iut is embarrassed in front of the whole world," Brown dded. "That is not the justice this great country stands or." Dick Schultz, the executive director of the NCAA, is pposed to Chaney's characterization of the NCAA as a acist organization. # "He's been opposed to Proposition 48 from the start, nd he's spoken very strongly against it," Schultz said, aaing mat ne does not Delieve that opposition from only hree coaches is enough to consider repealing the decision. You certainly can't call it a mandate from the memberhip," he said. Thompson, Chaney and Brown allege that the big prolem with Proposition 42 is that standard intelligence jsts, such as the SAT, now a requirement, are culturally iased, especially against blacks. "Despite the efforts of test-makers to make tests ulturally fair and not biased," says Dr. Lester A. Lefton, Gamecock at 777-7721 r?7 v <? pmrm Come By Our New Location 136 State Street, West Columbia ...just across Gervais St. Bridge, 5 min. from < 0N0? I H with Mononucleosis i. If you have or have PAAZhM t 2 weeks, you may k for 3 hours of your . 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Lefton USC psychology professor chair of USC's department of psychology, "there still exists questions on certain tests of intelligence or achievement, such as the SAT, which many researchers consider biased items." "1 don't think the SAT has anything to do with athletics," Lefton said. "The SAT is a wonderful predictor of success in college; on the average, if you do well on the SAT, you'll do well in college." Lefton believes that there should be some minimum standards for student-athletes. "Universities have strong athletic departments, and they represent an important part of the university," he said. "1 think it is reasonable for universities to go out of their way to facilitate the careers of student-athletes, but there has to be some minimum standard for all students." Lefton disagrees with Chaney's assessment of the SAT as a racist test. "1 don't think it's racist," Lefton said. "One of the most important things you find when you look at intelligence testing is that differences within racial groups are greater than differences between racial groups. That's a key piece of information, becausewhat it really does is minimizes black-white differences and suggests that within any one group, you're going to find a lot greater variation than between them." Dr. Richard Negle, a USC psychology professor and nationally recognized intelligence-testing expert, believes that Proposition 48 was "a step in the right direction." "The criteria which 48 set forth was really fairly minimal criteria," he said. "But beyond that, what 48 did was give the student-athlete an opportunity, without Dressure. to become acclimafeH rr? araHpmirt " Negle said Proposition 48 was not given long enough to have an impact. "It had not been demonstrated what the effectiveness of 48 was, for there was no data, or at least no data available to the public, showing what effect Proposition 48 had, if any, on collegiate athletics," he said. "But the main problem with 42 is that it may hinder students with poorer high school backgrounds from going to college." Negle said the SAT may be unfair to students with lower calibers of education. "The point is that the presumption of any intelligence test is that those who take it have had a reasonable opportunity to learn the skills contained on the test," he said. "If a student has not had the opportunity to learn the skills that are assessed on the test, then it can be considered an unfair test." Like Schultz and Lefton, Negle also disagrees with Chaney's charge of Proposition 42 being racist. "1 don't think I would agree that it's a racial type of thing," Negle said. 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