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yrlday, August 9, i>99ij The Battalion Pi ,st 9> 18$ in n Rich, f n write j. 1 session, ! Prepared are fails, inish : K whop : . uesday. achieve | bility." 'illion del un iy theC e Contine e groups! e group o leamak t Hispar Finallvti e borcfe: it the Ah o. > of litera: i said, ) science atch what ou wish for... LSU's appearance at Kyle Field on eptember 14 of this year will mark he beginning of R.C. Slocum's third eason as head coach at Aggieland. Slocum has compiled an impressive U 7-7-1 record here and has directed &M to the most lopsided bowl ictory in history against BYU last ear. Even so, the annual complaints ave already begun to circulate. Slocum is too conservative. Slocum lost to Texas when he should have one for the tie. Slocum should have sed Lance, or he should have used 3ucky. Slocum plays wimpy non- rposeisto conference games and combs his hair lining, funny. He hasn't gone to the Cotton le grount Bowl three years in a row like Jackie. , .. Crucify him! Crucify him! It's time for all the anal-retentive mnchair quarterbacks to sit down, adn fn in llshut U P an d ta ke an enlightening look A&M football history: In 1929 D.X. Bible left A&M football after 11 years, five Southwest . i ^Conference championships and 70 n aentiiii^ v i c tories to only 19 losses. His successor, Madison Bell, managed only a 24-21-3 record, with no championships. Homer Norton won three SWC championships from 1934 to 1947 and the National Championship in 1939. Harry Stiteler and Raymond George both followed him as head coach, ompiling a glorious record of 20-35-6, E th only two winning seasons tween them. The legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant called A&M the toughest place in the world to coach football. After four years of alumni pressure, the Bear See Stocum/Page 6 acks Cain not just for athletes anymore New NCAA rule requires changes in occupancy glw'V? * v<* By David Leahy The Battalion Cain Hall will never be the same. Beginning this fall, 35-40 of its resi dents will not be athletes, a first for the 16-year old athletic dormitory. TTiis comes as a result of an NCAA rule adopted on January 10, 1991, at the 85th NCAA Convention. Bylaw 16.5.2.2 of the NCAA manual states: “The institution may not house student-athletes in athletics dormito ries or athletics blocks within institu tional dormitories on those days when institutional dormitories are open to the general student body." The effective date of this rule is August 1, 1996, meaning Division I member in stitutions have five years to comply with the legislation. "I'm not real excited about the rule," said TCU head football coach, Jim Wacker. "With an athletic dorm, you have better control of the athletes be cause they're in one central location. You're also able to better monitor grades. I hope it changes." The NCAA's objective is to integrate the student-athletes "more completely" into the student body. The rationale be hind the rule is "to enable student-ath letes to experience every facet of college life similar to students in general." Opinions concerning the rule seem evenly balanced among SWC football coaches. "I think it's a good rule," said Rice coach Fred Goldsmith. "I've coached at schools that have had them (athletic dorms) and not had them, and found more problems at the schools that had them. "Anytime anything goes wrong, mo rale problems are created, and we wind up forcing rules on the athletes that other Texas recruit flunks exams AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Longhorn foot ball recruit James Thornton of McKinney, who failed to meet the minimum require ment on entrance exams, may enroll at the University of Kansas, it was reported Wednesday. "My heart is telling me to stay with Texas, but's it probably best to go to Kan sas," Thornton told the Austin Ameri- can-Statesman on Tuesday. Thornton said he scored 690 on his third attempt on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He needed 700 to be eligible at Texas. The Southwest Conference adopted a rule, effective this fall, under which member schools cannot accept athletes who fail to meet NCAA eligibility re quirements for freshmen, including a score of 700 on the SAT. SONDRA ROBBINS/The Battalion Cain Hall, Texas A&M’s athletic dormitory, will open its doors to non-athletes this fall semester in accordance with new NCAA regulations designed to integrate athletes into the student body. students don't have to abide," Goldsmith said. Texas Tech does not have an athletic dormitory, but even so, the rule does not please Head Coach Spike Dykes. "I don't like it. The NCAA is acting like the federal government," Dykes said. "I don't believe in taking everything away from a certain group of people just be cause the rest of the people don't have it." Texas A&M Head Coach R.C. Slocum agreed with Dykes. "I don't agree with the rule. Each school is a different situation," Slocum said. "The NCAA shouldn't legislate where athletes live. Let every school house their own students and athletes the way they want to." Like Texas Tech, SMU does not have an athletic dorm, but first-year coach Tom Rossley sees the rule in a different light. "I think it's a good rule," said Rossley. "I think the athletes spend too much time with football, and should spend more time with the student body. "The rule is in the best interest of the athletes," he said. Although the rule has already been adopted, "it is still up in the air," said Dr. Steve Crews, director of Cain Hall. With five years still remaining before the rule goes into full effect, the dissenters hope fora change. Ag netters win first round at Jr. Davis Cup POUGHKEEPSIE, New York- notched first-round^wins at the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Junior Davis Cup Tournament at the Poughkeepsie Tennis Club. Brown, a senior at A&M, upset the tournament's No. 4 seed Chris Henderson of the Northeastern Region 7-5, 6-4, while Phillips, a junior at A&M, knocked off Tim McNaney of the Southwestern Region 6-1,6-1. Brown will face local favorite George Banta of Poughkeepsie in the second round, and Phillips will take on Mark Kramer of Florida on Friday. Starting times for the matches have not been announced. Brown and Phillips will team up for the doubles competition which begins on Friday at 12:00 noon (EST). school loomed i| se on only to i the nat ccordiif Educati: s named 1 Ross Si: East Tei ndUT-f sa. • • * \iuiei Don't miss out on the best way to reach Students, Faculty and Staff Our Bad-MU Monday, Septemb® 1 * 2i IS Deadlines are Battalion or call THE BATTALION B45-269 6 I CHRONOGRAPH "For people on the move and who know where they are going" BREITLING 1004 TAG-Howor SECTOR TAG-Heuer A High-Technology instrument for people on the move and who know where they are going. 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