"Defending Academic Integrity in the Face of Commercialized College Sport"
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Meeting at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, March 23,2002
1) Call to Order: Meeting called to order by Jon Ericson at 1:30 PM. Agreed that items of New Business are
* a) Action plan
* b) 2003 conference
* c) position statement(s) from the Drake Group
* d) demographics (African American membership, etc.) of the membership, including organizations Drake
Group may wish to affiliate with.
2) Introductions made. In attendance: Jon Ericson, Ed Lawry, Ellen Staurowski, Lyell Thompson, Richard
Southall, Allen Sack, Chuck Edgely, Bruce Svare, Steve Estes, Jason Lanter, Linda Bensel-Meyers, Jim
Loughran
3) Secretary: Steve Estes agreed to take minutes of the meeting.
4) Director's Report: 88 members, slightly smaller than last year. Jon requested input on membership--
please forward to the new Director at any time. Suggestion made that we address the demographics of the
membership.
5) Budget: "Report on the budget" and a budget spreadsheet were distributed. Jon indicated his concern
with his maintaining Director and treasurer responsibilities, both now and in the future.
* a) M-s on item 1 of the budget: Director to be paid $300 for Jon's work as Director. Understood that the
$300 in Item 1 is $300/year. Motion passed.
* b) It was understood by the group that the Director will not be compensated for attending Drake Group
meetings, as with all members who attend the meetings.
* c) When the Director represents the Group, some of the Director's expenses could be covered by the
Drake Group budget subject to approval of the Executive Committee. M- s-passed.
* d) The Executive Committee shall review the receipts of the previous year and report at the annual meeting.
A motion to adopt the committee's report would serve as an audit of the budget and transfer responsibility for
expenditures from the officer to the membership. M-s-p
6) Many thanks to Aneta for doing the website in the past. No action on it at this time. The Group is looking
for someone to get the website going again. The "Drake Group" domain name is reserved and the fee is
paid for the current year. Consensus was that the news articles distributed by e-mail were very helpful, and
that we should continue this process of distribution if possible. Perhaps these articles could be listed on the
website. It was argued, and generally agreed upon, that the dissemination of these articles was one of the
best tools of the Drake Group.
7) Discussion ensued regarding the Bylaws. Jon argued that the Executive Committee was a "disaster." M-s
to amend Article VI, Section 1 to read: "The Executive Committee shall consist of the Director, the treasurer,
and one member elected at the annual meeting. The member shall serve until a successor is elected."
Motion failed. Ed took it in the shorts. Director got his lunch handed to him.
8) M-s to amend Article II: Object to read: "The object of The Drake Group shall be to restore academic
integrity in intercollegiate athletics undergraduate education with respect to intercollegiate athletics. Passed.
9) M-s to amend Article II: Object to read: "The object of The Drake Group shall be to restore academic
integrity in undergraduate education compromised by intercollegiate athletics." Passed.
10) M-s to amend Article II: Object to read: "The object of The Drake Group shall be to restore academic
integrity in the education promised to college athletes." Failed
11) Moved to assessment of progress toward Drake Group goals. Jon discussed the use of the brochure,
and asked that we begin using it more often.
12) Discussion ensued regarding The Plan of the group (vs. "platform"); question was asked regarding
academics or the Drake Group being "smeared" with being anti-athletics; question asked regarding the
perception that DG is racist and sexist (are we really? Where is this coming from?).
13) Some consensus was that we have achieved good press on our proposals. It should be recognized that
this is a remarkable accomplishment.
14) Some consensus that we have not achieved in any tangible sense any of the proposals in the brochure.
We have not been effective in achieving any measurable outcome.
15) The consensus of the DG was that we begin using the word "proposal" rather than "plan."
16) Some discussion that we work with agencies that do some sort of accreditation.
17) Discussion ensued regarding the location of the next meeting. Sense was that the northeast the week
prior to the final four works well for the group.
18) Linda Bensel-Meyers was nominated and elected for Director by unanimous consent.
19) Steve Estes was nominated and elected for Treasurer by unanimous consent.
20) Nominations for the executive committee were made. Nominated were Allen Sack, Ellen Staurowski,
Richard Southall, and Ed Lawry. Elected were Allen, Ellen, and Ed.
21) A resolution was made and accepted by acclamation thanking Jon Ericson for his sterling service to the
Drake Group and the academy.
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