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Show ; Page 10—THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, Wednesday, January30, 1980 srowssauiz UNM Transcript Scandal Points Out Woes j With Big-Time Athletics, Says College Boss }é z S =] & <=] SS = =| 3 NORM VAN BROCKLIN PASSED FOR A RECORD 554 YDS IN | GAME! WHO WON THE FIRST the Billings. NFL PASSING TITLE WITH 639 YDS IN ONE YR? A. ED DANOWSKI B ARNIE HERBER \. HELENA, Mont. (UPI) — The weregiven credit at Rocky Mountain's transcript scandal emanating from a California-based extended campus of Rocky Mountain College points to the problem with big-time college athletics, says college president Bruce Alton. I think it representsa lot of the demands that have been put on intercollegiate athletics — demandsto excel, unrealistic demands "’ the president of C. HARRY NEWMAN ] allude -JOMSUe Mont., college said in a telephoneinterview. ‘Unless a coach wasbeing pressured to win and to have players playing for him that needed to be academicallyeligible to play. things like this wouldn't haj xa Athletes were suspended from play at Arizona State. Cal PolyPomona, San Jose State and Purdue after an investigation determined that they had never taken classes for which they Gardena-Torrance campus. The extended campus, one of four operated by Rocky Mountain in California, wasoriginally set up in the 1970's to help California teachers earn postgraduate credits that would keep them certified and improve their salaries, Alton said. But a new kind of student apparently beganto enrollin two special education classes at Gardena, Alton said. “We noticed as we completed the summer session." he said, “‘that we sent transcripts to four different undergraduate institutions from the courses that we had offered at Gardena-Torrence, Calif. This was somewhat new to us because in fact, prior to this time, with very little exception, transcripts had always gone to elementary and secondary school dis- FEBRUARY SALE SAVE!! tricts because these were teachers who in their places in the class. about ‘underworld’ money being inwere going to update their credentials But he adds, “wefind it somewhat volved. as well as update their salaryrates difficult to believe that out of 35 people The college that eventually became “So it became apparent (o us that, in the class, 17 were fraudulently enrol- Rocky Mountain was established in Perhaps, undergraduates were using led and he didn't know aboutit."’ 1878 at Deer Lodge, Mont. After these courses for credit.” Those17 included eight who hadtheir several moves and a merger, the school Alton said that would normally pre- transcripts sentto Arizona State, six to was established at Billings, where it sent no problem, “‘butit was in fact not Cal Poly, two to San Jose and one to primarily trains teachers. the purpose for which these classes Purdue. Rocky Mountain has since gotten out were intended.” The credits were ‘‘cerAlton charges that five cf the false tainly valid,” he said, adding that a Students had been enrolled at Bowers’ of the extended campusbusiness. Alton Passing grade required an acceptable address, with three others enrolled at said the school decided last month to drop all continuing education programs performance on tests, preparation time the home of a Pasadena City College and written papers. teacher whom Alton declined to name. being conducted off the main campus But some students were getting Alton said one teacher apparently at the end of the Fall, 197% term. Alton said the program. had gotten Credit in Wiley Bowers’ two special had contacts with officials at the education classes without attending, schools, and arranged to give students high marks in 1975 end 1977 by the Alton said. Bowers has beenfired. credit without requiring performance Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. 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