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The Sports Column
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By BARRY COOPER
Syndicated Columnist ___
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'v.; uaaiy w<u is aooui to oreaK out in
intercollegiate athletics ? a battle as intense
as a Hearns-Hagler fight, as bitter as a hate
group marching through a black
neighborhood.
The issue is a piece of National Collegiate
Athletic Association legislation called Proposition
48. Approved by the NCAA last
summer and scheduled to take effect in
August 1986, the measure would require incoming
student-athletes to score at least 700
on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the
equivalent of 15 on the American College
Test.
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in auumon, me amieies would De required
to have at least a 2.0 high school grade-point
average (on a 4.0 scale) in a specific number
of college preparatory courses.
This is heavy-duty stuff.
Studies show that 56 percent of all black
students fail to score 700 on the SAT, an exam
which is culturally and racially biased.
With a 700 SAT score being the cutoff, it
is likely that the adoption of Proposition 48
would deliver a severe blow to the number of
black athletes who enter colleges each year.
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at Georgetown would become a thing of the
past. Blacks would no longer dominate that
sport as they do now, nor would they hold
the advantage on many college football
teams.
rroposition 48 might well bring about
reform in the classroom. Moreover, it most
certainly would give more white kids a
chance to play.
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Nassau, The Bahamas, in just ente
August. to run in
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Doggett plays point guard for the schedule
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130-pounder hurt her jaw. It was world ca
feared broken, but proved only lap race
to be a-severe bruise. sixth-$ra
At the start of the prep track Soon
season, it was discovered'that* and wor
Doggett had enlarged septa. This all-con
explained her discomfort in runn- Greenst
ing the 800, her least favorite caught t
event. An operation caused her to signed h
miss nearly a month of the that tim
season. Clara H
As the season wound down, Forsyth
she was complaining of pain in .state 10
her calves. After an examination, and now
her physician determined that she decided
had compartment syndrome, in hurdles
which the muscles stretch out- hurdlers
wardly, almost to the point of 4^Som
becoming detached from the rUn the
bone. For a hurdler, this is a most ' *But, i
painful condition. sprinter
"Running on your toes hurts a hurdler,
lot," she says. "But when you Browi
land after clearing the hurdle, special,
you're miserable." well, ex
Dudley Coach Lonnie Phifer He deci
instructed Doggett to to run on heptathl
grass whenever possible. Now her talents,
doctor believes she may simply 44If p
have shin splints and has directed more th
her to lessen her load this sum- would w
mer- said last
"I'm not gonna run any of the it turnec
invitationals," says Doggett, who four ev<
has been running all over the East two rel;
Coast since she joined Charlie Dudley
Brown's Pacesetters Track Club title sine
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Such a likely outcome has not been lost on
black educators
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Proposition 48 as being cloaked in racism.
Dr. Jesse Stone, who will retire in
September from his post as president of
historically-black Southern 1 IniversitY, *air)
it is easy to see the real purpose behind this
legislation.
"Proposition 48 is not an academic rule in
its entirety," he said. "The grade-point
average part of it is an academic rule. The
rest of it is just a smoke screen to make it appear
that something was being done about
academics when what they were doing was
really trying to come up with a way to sweep
Slacks out of athteties.M
The idea for Proposition 48 was formulated
a few years ago and subsequently
passed at last summer's NCAA convention
in Dallas. However, black educators were
not invited to participate in the decisionmaking
process until it was time to cast the
votes.
Now the momentum has shifted. The
uproar from black legislators has been so
loud that Propostion 48 likely will be altered
before it takes effect.
Most officials think that the SAT requirement
will be dropped. The outcome likely
will be known June 20-21. when the NCAA
officials gather in New Orleans for their annual
convention.
Black educators will be ready.
"I think the black athlete was dominating
athletics to the dissatisfaction of some people,"
Stone said. "By the same token, you
see that this movement is not only spreading
through athletics, but through the entire
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to make the nationals." the winning 4x400 relay
AC Junior Olympics are the Panthers' roared to
d for August in Seattle. victory over High Pc
tt's entry into the track drews.
me when she won a two- Next year, Dudley she
around a softball field in little trouble repeating a
ide Field Day activities. become only the seco
after that, she entered team to win three straig
1 the 60-yard dash at an County, propelled
lers meet in the
>oro Coliseum. That
:he eye of Brown, who
er on as a Pacesetter. At
e, the team was led by
airston, the former East Jk
standout who holds the ^ I
0-meter hurdles record
attends Auburn. Brown
to put Doggett in the
because he had so few
and too many sprinters.
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hurdles," Brown says.
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in the state title," Brown 1
year at the sectionals. As
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ents - two hurdles and .
ays - was enough for
to win its first girls track I . JLM
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hurt the most are black. What these folfcs are S
trying to do is make it tougher for black kids &
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Although Proposition 48 would knock ^
many blacks out of college athletics, it is ^
clear something must~be ~?tone to raise the _
educational standards of student-athletes.
Many coast through high school and then
waste up to five years of college, all in the
hope of earning a professional contract.
When that does not happen, we have more
tragic case? of athletes who not only failed to
earn their degrees but also failed to gather
any meaningful skills while in college.
rules like Proposition 48 are no solution.
i4l think that the university has an enhanced
responsibility for that student who pro
vides such great attention for the university
and helps it earn thousands of dollars,"
Stone said. "We have got to work with these
kids and see to it that they do get an education
while they are out there helping the
schools on the gridiron or basketball court."
Larger schools, which depend heavily on
the black athlete, would not be the only ones
hurt by Proposition 48. Historically black
schools, whose squads are all-black, would
be hard-pressed to find enough players who
meet the standards.
It would appear that Proposition 48 may
have arrived before its time. A 2.0 gradepoint
average and demonstrated success in
college preparatory courses should be
enough to earn admission to all but the most
stringent colleges. And men like Dr. Stone
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