NCAA Changes
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CHAD PATTESON/Emerald
Daryl Christian (top), who scored a major decision over Lock Haven's 150-pound Dave Murray at McArthur Court on
Jan. 10, is one of the Oregon wrestlers who now has to abide try the NCAA's new weigh-in policy.
Wrestlers adjust to NCAA rule changes
The
NCAA’s
latest rules
ban the
use of
saunas,
rubber
suits and
diuretics
for weight
loss
By Joel Hood
Sports Reporter
Oregon’s Daryl Christian lias to work
out in a 90-degree room, four nights a
week, to trim down to his wrestling
weight of 150 pounds. He has to run, he
has to lift and now, following a new
NCAA weigh-in rule passed last week, he
will have just two hours to replenish his
body before competition.
Fueled by the recent deaths of three
wrestlers trying to make weight, the
NCAA announced rule changes last Tues
day that put new restrictions on the ways
wrestlers can drop pounds before compe
tition.
Among the changes that are currently
in effect are restrictions
on the ways wrestlers
1
can cut weight.
Wrestlers may not use
WRESTLING
saunas tor water toss,
and rubber suits and
diuretics cannot be
used for any reason.
The NCAA has already barred laxa
tives, fluid restriction, self-induced vom
iting, hot rooms, hot boxes and steam
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The rule
certainly hit
us hard. It's
hard to
make a big
change like
that... ”
Rich Polkinghorn
University wrestler
Madden likely
to play in
Arizona game
Forward Many Madden sat
out Monday's practice as
a preventative measure, ’
bead coach Ernie Kent said
By Chris Hansen
Assistant Sports Editor
Forward Henry Mad
den sat out Monday’s
practice with a slightly
sprained right wrist that
he injured Saturday
against Washington Mate tz__nZTI
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Sitting out practice is a
preventative measure,
said head coach Ernie Kent, who doesn't
expect the team’s leading scorer to miss
Thursday’s game against defending nation
al champion Arizona.
The play occurred in the first half when
Madden was going up for a dunk on a fast
break. Nelson slammed into Madden, send
ing him to the floor. Nelson was charged
with an intentional foul, and Madden con
verted both free-throw attempts.
Madden came back in the second half to
score 12 of his 18 points, making all five of
his field-goal attempts.
More Madden
One of the forward's second-half baskets
was a hard-fought layin in which he was
fouled by Washington State forward Carlos
Daniel. After the play, an emotional Mad
den turned toward a group of players and
unleashed a verbal diatribe.
Madden was hit with a technical foul by
the referee, who thought he was talking to
Daniel. Madden claimed lie was talking to
teammate Jamar Curry.
The incident occurred two plays after
Daniel and a teammate emphatically
bumped chests after a Daniel dunk.
After the call against Madden, Kent got
into a colorful exchange with the referee.
“My comment to him was, ‘These are
athletes of the 90s. Sometimes athletes of
the 90s trash talk each other,”’ said Kent,
referring to players on the same team. “You
see it a lot where guys are bumping chests
and knocking each other around.”
If you need any proof of that, watch Ore
gon’s starting lineup get introduced before
the game.
But Kent said that his team will not trash
talk opponents.
“We don’t do that,” he said. “I’ll sit a guy
in a minute if I see anything like that.”
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university officials complete athletic department study
The NCAA
study’s purpose
is to “open the
affairs of
athletics to the
university
community. ”
By Ryan Frank
Sports Editor
Members of the University administra
tion have completed a self-study of the ath
letic department for a new Division I Ath
letics Certification that was instituted
following the 1993 NCAA convention.
The 400-page report was scheduled to be
available for public access in the Knight Li
brary’s Reserve Room on Tuesday after
noon, but according to Duncan McDonald,
University vice president for public affairs
and development and the director of the
committee, the release was delayed until 9
a.m. Wednesday morning because of
scheduling difficulties.
The self-study mandated by the NCAA
has four evaluation sections: governance,
academic integrity, fiscal integrity and eq
uity.
Each sub-committee was led by a mem
ber of the University faculty. Ralph Barn
hard, assistant head of the chemistry de
partment, led the governance committee;
Martha Pitts, director of admissions, acad
emic integrity committee; Sherri McDow
ell, director of business affairs, fiscal in
tegrity; and Ken Lehrman, director of
affirmative action, equity.
“I feel as if the University athletic de
partment looked very good,” McDonald
said in a phone interview Tuesday after
noon.
McDonald said he did not want to dis
cuss the specifics of the report, but he did
mention that the study revealed that the
graduation rate of student-athletes is higher
than the graduation rate of the overall stu
dent body.
The report will next be reviewed by a
peer review team, chaired by Utah State
University President George Emert, when
they visit the University April 7-10.
The NCAA has three options when eval
uating the University: certified, certified
with conditions and not certified.
Through last year, 120 of the 305 Divi
sion I universities had gone through the
self-study process and been reviewed by
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(( I feel as if
the University
athletic
department
looked very
good. U
Duncan McDonald
University vice president