NCAA Protest

Protest from academic and civil rights leaders against the new NCAA academic requirements for athletes--formulated by a committee chaired by President Bok--is mounting.

In an issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, the president of the Educational Testing Service. Gregory R. Anng, joined Southern University System President Jesse N Stone and other Black college presidents to assert that the regulations present "a disservice to blacks and other Americans who aspire to higher education and the pursuit of intercollegiate athletics."

The proposal, scheduled to take effect in 1986, applies to the 277 colleges in the NCAA's Division I and requires that varsity athletes have a minimum grade point average and achieve a minimum score on the standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Civil rights leaders contend that the latter provision is discriminatory because Blacks generally score lower on such standardized tests than whites. The Southern Digest, February 11