European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday Marcel 4, 1967 the stars and stripes 7f e7$ Hgt offer p 0polf$f commentary a grand Opportunity for . The cynical people who made it one of so Mot blatant football foundries in the country hat lipped away caving behind an institution with be Chol Cei to make Given the Antes that led to six penalties in recent Yean and a Onnfer suspension by the National collegiate  last wednesday Whynot think about going shout football at sum football and Baikal he Heve always seemed to Meto be a giant obstacle Tole studying the creativity the recreation at i colleges mus. Even at the most conscientious Powers the re coach becomes the most prominent adult on Campus the players the most notorious undergraduate what started As exercise among amateurs has Bap me professional entertainment the Core of identity Trtany schools. That lesson was driven Holun our House hold a few years Back when no i Dauwer chose to St Thatje Gewirth no sports program to a Large midwestern adversity with a Fine writing program. In mid november she called Home and i you Fin not going to believe this Ever running Aroun Campus chanting Coin in Ina in a Winnebago " nobody staged a Pep i when the school literary Magazine came  the Highland Park Section of Dallas nobody is going to football games in a Winnebago next season at least not to games involving the cortege built upon the pietism and perfectionist methodist Fervour of John Wesley. Because of recruiting violations there will be no sum team in 1987, a curtailed schedule in 1988 and probation for four Yean beyond  a denomination that once encouraged withdrawal from secular society and later developed Astrain of social activism that endures to this Day the penalty is undoubtedly a Public disgrace. Things were not going Well on the morality eligibility granted to transfers theorge front says Leroy Howe the president of the faculty Senate and a professor or pastoral theology at the Perkins school of religion the University i getting what it  a committee has been studying the Long term options for football and will make recommendations by the Middle of March i do not detect any sentiment for abolition Howe Laid. Bui i do near a lot of people i about a scaled Down  Howe recalls pleasant undergraduate Daft a Miami of Florida having fun rooting for s even when they lost a  he watched is year fiesta bowl for the National title and is fid himself rooting for Penn state against his Anu Baler because he teaches  to motivated students Howe cannot a Fri Ether football is a major impediment to Ducaj Jar he says the social demands of a Large  sorority system May Cut More into studying flame. But he favors Cut Ting Back on football Tot Tinl reasons. The football program wis sealed off from the rest he Ian the recent athletic director. President both of whom along we the football coach. A j and Revenue limited for year by the Mlej Lually sum would be sending unprepared my onto the Field in 1988, like the Czar army Sendai military school cadets out to fight Rev Las put Fri stans to the Lions Howe Sug-1 about the Well being of the walk Ems cannot eco pc Bah highly recruited and possibly illegally sumo Zed players at other powerhouses not Tor of Banules not for a Fult sea son. In Foo Tull the Halty is More than lopsided scores. The penal Spain and injury to exhausted and  men. What is the Legal culpability for  students onto a Field  but sur has other options. Some schools  Kry programs Fielding students without  sometimes flying across coun Printer sectional games. Without the incentive of being no. I without sing Able to play their mercenary games with teen agers Many sum boosters win switch their allegiances to other colleges attracting infractions the Way garbage attracts lies or is it the other Way around in those huge vacuums of tall weekends Smuc Ould promote its excellent theater program and its Lovely Art gallery. The students might miss the Boom and the Flash of big time football the Way we miss sugar and caffeine when it is withheld from our sys tems but they d get Over it. Sum could put its Energy into so called minor sports. Soccer does not need Alt the equipment the hordes of Beefy specialists that football does. Big time sports Are not going away but the Choice belongs to sum the Mcaa has Given this school the Chance to think very carefully whether it wants return to isolated coaches Sleazy boosters and com Plaisant school officials. Sum has been handed the option of walking away Froni the educational Aberra Tion of big Lime sports sum could even bulk up its recreation and Intra mural program make a big fuss Over fraternity games and club games. American youth is in dismal shape anyway. A physical fitness revival late in the20th Century on a methodist College Campus John Wesley always did Tike revivals. My Luis plan suit Abiam St sanctions Dallas Jap the Southwest conference Council voted to waive Rule that would have required so methodist football players to w. Year before playing at any of the eight league schools Sec Offida Sald monday the Sec Council met a Oklay by conference Call and decide to allow sum players to immedi Abiy Transfer to any of the other school of Sec com missioner Fred Jacoby i Council members Ped to follow then Caa special Transfer Rule that waives the one Academe year residence requirement for ski student athletes in the football ram Only the Jcj fast week suspended sum s 19jrfoolball season because of recruiting violations that occurred White tie school already was on Proba Tiona previous violations. Changed its mind after Friday s 5-Ond asked for a reconsideration. Mustangs after the death penalty but Jacoby said the earlier vote was bind ing and that reconsideration could be Only be dealt with at future meeting. Sum faculty representative loan Kliever abstained from the vote. The Sec Council also voted to interpret another league Rule to mean that Mcaa sanctions suspending Competition in the sport of football do not Leoj Eardiie sum s standing As a full participating member in the conference the Rule required a conference Mem Ber institution to sponsor six Sec Spon Rcd sports for men two of wll must be football and basketball. San and a Texas