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Survey: Proposition 48 is racial barrier!^
AP says black Division I athletes encountering greatest setbacks
NEW YORK (AP) — Proposition
48 academic standards have become
a racial barrier in college basketball,
penalizing blacks almost exclusively,
an Associated Press survey shows.
The survey of all 293 NCAA Divi
sion I schools found 105 recruits
were ineligible because of Prop 48 in
the season now drawing to a close,
and all but nine of them — 91.4 per
cent — were black. By contrast, only
60.4 percent of the 3,892 players
and, according to the Department of
Education, 8.6 percent of the entire
student population were black.
Only three Prop 48s this season
were white, and only one of them —
at Youngstown State — stayed at the
school. There was one Hispanic and
five foreign-born.
The survey also showed:
• The number of Prop 48 players
is leveling off, down from 111 last
season and 162 the year before.
• More Prop 48 casualties are
staying in school to play their second
year. Eighty percent of players side
lined by Prop 48 last season played
this season, up from 70 percent the
year before.
• Louisiana State had five re
cruits sidelined by Prop 48, the most
of any school. Old Dominion had
four and Boise State and Temple
three each. No other school had
more than two.
• The Mid-Eastern Athletic Con
ference and the Sun Belt Confer
ence had 10 Prop 48s each, the most
among conferences. The Southeast
ern had nine and the Big West
seven. No other conference had
more than five.
• Only the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence, the Colonial League, the East
Coast Conference, the Ivy League
and the Trans America Athletic
Conference had no Prop 48s.
The percentage of blacks among
the basketball Prop 48s is similar to
results in an NCAA study. The
NCAA considered only those re
cruits who actually enrolled in school
and found that 58 of 60 Prop 48s
were black in 1987-88 and 80 of 90
were black in 1986-87.
That’s an even higher percentage
than the NCAA found in all sports
combined, with blacks six times as
likely as whites to fail Prop 48 stan
dards. That 1987-88 study showed
one in seven black recruits was a
Prop 48, compared with one in 45
whites.
“What they’re involving them
selves in right now is close to a viola
tion of a civil rights law,” said
Temple coach John Cheney, a lead
ing opponent of Prop 48. “They are
not above a civil rights violation with
both Prop 48 and Prop 42. You’re
talking about predominantly blacks.
You’re not talking about anyone
else.”
Proposition 42, passed by the
NCAA convention in January,
would prevent a school from giving
a scholarship to players who fail ei
ther of the Prop 48 minimums — a
700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test
(or 15 on the American College
Test) and a 2.0 grade-point average.
Currently, the partial- and non-
qualifiers may not play, but can re
ceive financial aid.
Cheney and Georgetown Coach
John Thompson are among the
most vocal critics of the new rule,
scheduled to go into effect for the
1990-91 school year.
“It’s a disappointing maldistribu
tion of disqualifiers,” said James
Zumberge, president of the Univer
sity of Southern California and one
of the Prop 48 founders.
Nevertheless, he said the numbers
indicate that too many recruits “were
totally unequipped for any college
work beyond the simplest of college
programs.”
Victor Herbert, executive director
of high schools for the New York
City board of education, said he be
lieves most Prop 48s are black be
cause white students from disadvan
taged areas aren’t recruited.
“There are sections where there
are poor white communities where
youngsters don’t even think of going
to college — Appalachia and such,”
he said. “I believe it is much more
6i
w “hat they’re
involving themselves in
right now is close to a
violation of a civil rights
law. They are not above a
civil rights violation with
both Prop 48 and Prop 42.
You’re talking about
predominantly blacks.
You’re not talking about
anyone else.”
ckl
— John Cheney,
Temple U. basketball
coach
connected to poverty than to race.
But it is clear that there are more mi
norities in poor communities.”
Ursula Walsh, director of re
search for the NCAA, said it will be
at least five more years before the
NCAA can determine if the rule is
helping students get their degrees.
“There are more coming back,
but is it because they’re spending
tens of thousands of dollars on test
courses? Is it because they’re taking
Mickey Mouse courses and not really
getting any educations?” she said.
Damon Patterson, a reserve for
ward at Oklahoma, is one Prop 48
who made a dramatic turnaroi
After sitting out the 1987-8)
he had a 3.13 grade-point
on a scale of 4.0 and was n
this season’s Big Eight all-acadi
team.
“I just went out and got
thing ready for this year ar
told myself if I can’t do better
mically, I can’t play,” Patterson
Educators repeatedly stressed
when Prop 48 was passed in Jam
1985, the intent was to
changes in high schools. The
gible players in college were
product.
“We had so many athletes in
lege who were there for foury
of eligibility and were not genii
degree, and just couldn’t get a
gree,” said James H. Wharton
cellor of Louisiana State.
“Proposition 48’s message was
the secondary schools, the a
and coaches: They have to
courses and make the gradestok
some minimal preparation for
lege.
“Yes, there are some prol
with it. In many cases they wait
their senior years. I have seen
af ter case after case where stui
have buckled down and
which is good for them.
“Would 1 say it is working:
would say it’s working.”
Even Cheney agrees that soi
thing must be done about li
school education.
“I think the intentions of 48
good,” he said. “But we’re h
hostage the youngster at
who has come from a very
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“(We’re saying) we’re
raise our standards so high I
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not going to do anything for yoi
That’s as hypocritical as you
find.”
Astros cut Cedeno
TANK MCNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Former
Houston Astros all-star Cesar Ce
deno was cut from the roster Tues
day, ending his attempt to return to
the major leagues as a pinch hitter.
Cedeno, who played 11 seasons
with the Astros and still holds a team
record with 487 stolen bases, had
been invited for a spring tryout as a
non-roster player.
Cedeno, 38, was with the Houston
team through 1981. He hit .207 dur
ing the exhibition season, a team
spokesman said.
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