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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.
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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
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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
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athlete for 1956.
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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,
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most important things you find when
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suggests that within any one group,
you're going to find a lot greater variation
than between them."
Lester A. 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. "I don't think the intent of the policy
is to be racist, although it may decrease the opportunity
for some kids to get into college."
Racist or not, Proposition 42 will be put into effect next
year. And, Dick Schultz said, it's going to take a lot more
than just the arguments of three coaches to force the
NCAA to repeal it.
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