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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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March 6, 2008
NCAA Places California State U. at Long Beach on Probation for Rules Violations in Men's Basketball
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed California State University at Long Beach on probation for three years after finding evidence of numerous rules violations in its men’s basketball program.
According to a report released today by the NCAA’s Division I Infractions Committee, the university and the former head coach of the team did not adequately monitor the men’s basketball program and its recruitment of transfer athletes from August 2004 to August 2005.
The university allowed six athletes who had transferred to Long Beach from two-year institutions to compete even though they were ineligible for admission to the university, the report said. And coaching staff members, lacking appropriate supervision, provided other types of assistance to the transfer athletes in violation of NCAA rules, the report said.
In one case, an assistant coach obtained a correspondence exam for an athlete and allowed him to complete the test without a proctor, the report said. It added that the assistant coach then forged the name of a friend as the proctor before submitting the exam.
After discovering the violations, the university imposed several penalties on itself. Those included a ban on recruiting transfer students from two-year institutions for the 2008-9 academic year, as well as a reduction in the number of men’s basketball scholarships for this academic year and next.
The NCAA levied additional sanctions against the university, including a requirement that the university vacate all wins in which the six transfer students competed while they were ineligible.
Steve Janisch, a spokesman for the athletics department, said the university would not appeal the NCAA’s findings. —Libby Sander
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