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Well there will not be an issue next week, but check out our fir; fall issue on Aug. 14. We will ha\ preview of the fall sports season. Page 6 Colleges p COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE So much for Sunday being a day of rest. If the National Collegiate Athletic Association has its way, student athletes won't have a choice about playing at events scheduled on the Christian Sabbath. The NCAA is considering Proposal 98-32, which would no longer require the association to reschedule Division I Sunday championship events at an institution's request. The plan has outraged many school officials ? particularly those who lead religiously affiliated schools. More than 100 institutions have signed a petition against the policy change. The NCAA has a rule that student athletes need one day off a week," said Tom Collins, athletic director of Camp Dell university, a boutnern Baptist school in North Carolina. "For us that day should be Sunday." The proposed policy change stems from the NCAA's desire to be Snyder fir a t flnnHwi MV VI VV\* ff 1 staff writer IQHi ISAAC sixth in the shot Jj^/ putattheNasS Wk sau County Mitchel Athletics Complex in SNYDER New York. Qrwrlnr q hurt. time NCAA champion in 1998 with the shot put, threw a toss of 64-feet-4 1/2 to place sixth. Snyder, a rising junior, was the only collegiate in the competition. Snyder went in seated ninth. "I had a pretty good opener and then I didn't throw very well," Snyder said. "I was trying to hard I guess and my technique kind of fell apart. It's getting easier for me to compete at this i i level. "I am not as nervous. I would like to have done a bit better, but I always feel that way. You are never in a situation where you say you couldn't have done any better," he said. Carolina throws coach Mike Sergent was pleased with Snyder's performance. "It was a good performance for Brad after a lonsr vear" Sereent said. "It was it /e a j rotestine N 0 - , more inclusive of student athletes wh observe the Sabbath on days other thai Sunday, said Tricia Bork, an NCAj staff administrator. "We looked at the impact of havin, to adjust the schedule for all other pai ticipants and what would be better fo a larger number of athletes," she saic The University of California at Lo Angeles cited similar reasons for it decision not to sign the petition, sai Betsy Stephenson, one of UCLA's as sociate athletic directors. "We are an extremely diverse com munity, ethnically, religiously and cul turally, and we believe it is difficul to accommodate any one part," she saic "If you can't accommodate all groups then it is unfair to protect some o them." But school officials and student ath letes protesting the change aren't buj ; ??1 ? on, nig mat eapimiauuii. ?iiey insist ui almighty dollar is behind the NCAA' deliberations. "A lot of decisions are based on mon ey, and that's not always right," sail tishes sixth 11 Games a solid effort. It was his best effort ii international competition. He is show incr cicrns nf matiirincr nn that. Ipvp] ~*fc> ~? 0 ? ??- ? The USA went 1-2-3 in the even with world record holder John Go din; winning it all at 70-feet-4 1/2. Snyder, a native of Windsor, On tario, is training for the Canadian Na tionals in August. Snyder will compete in the discus; and the shot put. He is ranket eighth in the world. In her first competition as a pro fessional, South Carolina's two-tim< NCAA champion Lisa Misipeka place( seventh in the women's hammer throv last Tuesday at the Goodwill Games Former Carolina NCAA chamnior Dawn Ellerbe finished sixth. Romania's Mihaela Melinte woi the event with a world-record toss o 238'4. Misipeka, a native of Temecula uam., tnrew zuo-ieei-n w piace sev enth. Misipeka will bring home a checl for $750. Ellerbe threw one inch better tc finish sixth at 206-feet. Ellerbe, an as sistant coach at the University ol Wyoming, will cash a check for $1,000 Misipeka competes under the American Samoa flag. She is the first femalt /imenuaii oaniuaii tu uumpete at tut Goodwill Games. Sport< The Gamecock CAA propos i u \ A lot of decisions are based on money, and that's not g always right. r Sara Moore I- sophomore on Campbell s University's basketball team s t 99 Sara Moore, a rising sophomore on h Campbell's women's basketball [. team. t Indeed, the financial stakes are [ high. Even Bork conceded that resched5 uling games hurts the NCAA's chances if Q Al TV'O tl SURF - SKATE - SNOW I 610 Harden St. (Across from Groucho's) - 748-9946 n 1 W/Al J Inter-M Inter-Media Marketina i States today. 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