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National campus news Former UO president - *( ■«* 9 »l « . « f) *V' r' r vHv ■ N r |ky named NCAA head Sarah Meinecke Indiana Daily Student (Indiana U.) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (U-WIRE) — The man who fired Bob Knight and advocated academics over ath letics is set to run the nation’s college sports machine. Thursday in a surprising announce ment, the NCAA unanimously named Indiana University President Myles Brand its president-elect. His five-year contract begins on the first day of the new year. Brand’s new position will force him to resign ILTs top job. Brand’s acceptance of this position leaves a void in BJ’s highest leadership position, and he said the process hap pened quickly. The new NCAA presi dent barely had time to personally in form the IU board of trustees before announcing his resignation. “Well, at first it was a very difficult decision, and when I finish in De cember, it will be with great regret,” Brand said late Thursday night from Indianapolis. “I enjoyed working with the faculty, the administrative staff and the students at IU. This is an opportunity to have an impact on a national level. It’s an opportunity I could not pass by.” One of three finalists interviewed early Thursday afternoon, Brand was unani mously voted to the position by early evening. He becomes the fourth president in the history of the associa tion, and fol lows Cedric Dempsey into Brand orrice. Dempsey announced his re tirement from the position, where he spent eight years. The NCAA Execu tive Committee started its seven month search for a new president soon after Dempsey’s announce ment that he would leave. Brand was the University of Ore gon’s 14th president, immediately preceding University President Dave Frohnmayer. His tenure was marked by significant reductions in higher education funding after the passage of the property-tax-limiting Measure 5 in 1990. Brand had to make what he called at the time “incredibly tough” decisions about which Uni versity programs to cut. He also re sponded to Measure 5 by instituting The Oregon Campaign, an aggres sive private-gift fundraising cam paign that raised more than $255 million when it ended in 1998. The NCAA Executive Committee accepted 118 nominations for pos sible candidates for its top job, be fore narrowing the field to 11 final ists in September. The group cut the finalists to three, and the subsequent an nouncement of an appointee took only a short time. “My understanding is that has de veloped fairly recendy,” IU spokesman Bill Stephan said. “He was contacted by the NCAA officials whether he might be interested. This was an ex traordinary opportunity on a national scale. He will take on the responsibility that will go along with the job. ” This announcement came as a sur prise to many at IU as well. Because of the nomination and voting process that the NCAA follows, the screening process is kept under wraps. In this case, the time period be tween an offer and an acceptance was short. “From the beginning it was an im portant consideration to not at all speak about the candidates,” IU Ath letics Director Michael McNeely said. “I’m not surprised, because it is a very prestigious role. It provides great op portunity and great challenges.” Brand, 60, has been IU’s presi dent since 1994, but arguably will be best remembered for imposing a “zero tolerance” policy on former men’s basketball coach Bob Knight. Brand later fired Knight for break ing the agreement. During his tenure as president, IU private donations led all public uni versities, and Time magazine named IU “College of the Year” among re search universities in September 2001. Brand also helped unify the IU Medical Center Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children with Methodist Hospital to form Clarian Health. IU also enjoyed record enrollment numbers under Brand. “I personally can attest through the things that the rest of student body doesn’t see,” said IUSA Presi dent Bill Gray. “This man has done everything in his power to better IU and help its students in any way.” Brand also made headlines recent ly for his February 2001 NCAA News article, “Presidents Have Cause, Means to Reduce Arms,” where he likened the continually increasing spending on college athletics pro grams to an military “arms race” and suggested that the spending was harming academic progress at col leges nationwide. “The path that we are now follow ing leads to an ever-widening gap be tween the academic and athletics cultures on our college campuses,” Brand wrote. “Over time, it could well lead to college programs that differ little from professional ones. It already has led to a growing sense among members of the public — and even members of the university community — that athletics success is the main goal of too many institu tions of higher learning. “We must get off diat path. We must make certain that academic concerns are first and foremost. To do that, we don’t have to turn off the game. We just have to turn down the volume.” One result of Brand’s article was a resolution circulated by some uni versity faculties, urging college pres idents to slow the “arms race.” Such a resolution was passed by the Univer sity of Oregon Senate on May 9,2001. The minutes of the meeting and a copy of the resolution are available at http://www.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/di rsenOO l/09May01 minutes. html. Emerald editor in chief Michael J. Kleckner contributed to this report. Gay pride symbols defaced at Southern Illinois campus Ann Thompson Daily Egyptian (Southern Illinois U.) CARBONDALE, 111. (U-WIRE) — Sometime Wednesday evening the Saluki Pride Rocks at Southern Illi nois University were defaced, and it remains unclear who is responsible. The Saluki Rainbow Network painted the rocks last week in cele bration of National Coming Out Week. The rocks were painted Tues day in colorful rainbows, and Thurs day morning they were defaced with one big, white word — “FAG." Jason Vaughan, treasurer for SRN, said this is the first incident of this nature to take place on the SIUC campus that he knows of. “It makes me wish that people could participate on a campus,” Vaughan said. “It happened in a campus community that values tol erance and a multiplicity of ideas, and that’s why it makes me sad.” Mike Gary, co-director of SRN, said he is trying to look at it like a practical joke but said it may affect people considering coming out. “If people are trying to come out or thinking about coming out, this might frighten them,” Gary said. Gary also said that in his two and a half years with SRN, this is the first time something this bla tant has happened. The SIUG Police could not be reached after repeated phone calls. Although board members of SRN value the idea of freedom of speech, in a meeting Wednesday afternoon, they came to the conclusion that this is a hate crime. Accompanying the word “FAG” were three other letters — “ATO.” Alpha Tau Omega President Shawn Drone said he really doesn’t know what’s going on and that he is trying everything he can to figure this out. “I don’t think it was any of our guys that would do this,” Drone said. “It’s dumb to do this, but it’s even dumber to put your name on it.” The possibility of fraternity rival ry has popped into Drones’ mind, but he said that it’s common and doesn’t want to make any official statement in that direction. PHOTO 1 SPECIALS] ■ OCTOBER 14-20 ■ $2.00 OFF PREMIUM ■ PROCESSING: B 24 exp. (4x6/5x7) m $6.17/58.48 36 exp. 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