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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.
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