Vagabond
07-18-2012, 04:04 PM
Caltech Gives New Meaning to ‘Academically Ineligible’ (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sports/caltech-ncaa-case-gives-new-meaning-to-academically-ineligible.html?_r=1)
:skandal
The N.C.A.A. determined that a total of 30 Caltech athletes on 12 teams practiced or played in games while academically ineligible from the 2007-08 to 2010-11 academic years. But most of the infractions, which were discovered and reported by Athletic Director Betsy Mitchell in 2011, were the result of Caltech’s unusual class registration system.
During the first three weeks of each trimester, students at Caltech, the academically rigorous college in Pasadena, take part in a process known as shopping, in which they are allowed to essentially sample classes before being required to register for them. Rod Kiewiet, Caltech’s dean of undergraduate students, said many students stayed in these classes for the entire term, but they, like so many college students, sometimes procrastinated.
“A very large number of them have already picked out their classes, and they’re going to the classes,” Kiewiet said. “They just don’t get registered until the deadline.”
If students are not officially registered for enough classes during this three-week period, they can be considered part-time students, and part-time students are ineligible to compete in N.C.A.A. events.
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Caltech’s penalties include a one-year postseason ban for sports in which ineligible players competed, a one-year ban on off-campus recruiting, three years of probation and a $5,000 penalty.
Also, Caltech’s sports information department will soon meet with the N.C.A.A. to determine which wins and records the university must vacate. There was brief concern that the men’s basketball team’s 46-45 win over Occidental in 2011, which ended the 310-game conference losing streak, would be overturned. But no ineligible players were used in that game.
:wall: :rolleyes: :scream:
I do believe that I have lost all respect for the NCAA.
Heaven forbid that a student should attend more classes without already being registered for them.
:skandal
The N.C.A.A. determined that a total of 30 Caltech athletes on 12 teams practiced or played in games while academically ineligible from the 2007-08 to 2010-11 academic years. But most of the infractions, which were discovered and reported by Athletic Director Betsy Mitchell in 2011, were the result of Caltech’s unusual class registration system.
During the first three weeks of each trimester, students at Caltech, the academically rigorous college in Pasadena, take part in a process known as shopping, in which they are allowed to essentially sample classes before being required to register for them. Rod Kiewiet, Caltech’s dean of undergraduate students, said many students stayed in these classes for the entire term, but they, like so many college students, sometimes procrastinated.
“A very large number of them have already picked out their classes, and they’re going to the classes,” Kiewiet said. “They just don’t get registered until the deadline.”
If students are not officially registered for enough classes during this three-week period, they can be considered part-time students, and part-time students are ineligible to compete in N.C.A.A. events.
....
Caltech’s penalties include a one-year postseason ban for sports in which ineligible players competed, a one-year ban on off-campus recruiting, three years of probation and a $5,000 penalty.
Also, Caltech’s sports information department will soon meet with the N.C.A.A. to determine which wins and records the university must vacate. There was brief concern that the men’s basketball team’s 46-45 win over Occidental in 2011, which ended the 310-game conference losing streak, would be overturned. But no ineligible players were used in that game.
:wall: :rolleyes: :scream:
I do believe that I have lost all respect for the NCAA.
Heaven forbid that a student should attend more classes without already being registered for them.