May 4, 2001

Auburn Trustees Have Usurped Control of Athletics, Former President Says

By WELCH SUGGS

A committee of Auburn University trustees has essentially run the university's athletics department for years, William V. Muse, Auburn's former president, told a faculty panel in March. The trustees' committee, led by Robert E. Lowder, has bypassed presidents and ignored normal channels of authority, said Mr. Muse, who stepped down in February.

Mr. Muse, who will become president of East Carolina University in August, spoke to the group after J. Wayne Flynt, a professor of Southern

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