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Show Presidents of New Conference To Set Policy in Cedar City Meet State College and Wasburn Univer.y4v from Kansas; Colorado Col-orado State College and Southern South-ern Colorado State from Colorado Colo-rado and Eastern New Mexi-, Mexi-, co from New Mexico. Presidents of the 17 member schools of the new Rocky Mountain Athletic Confer- ' ence will hold important organizational or-ganizational meetings at College Col-lege of Southern Utah Dec. 15 and 16. Some of the thorny problems prob-lems of organizing an athletic conference will be worked out at the meeting, according to Harry B. "Doc" Kniseley, com-...ssioner com-...ssioner of the RMAC. "This is a meeting io set up and ad.ipt the rules of the con-feieiu-e," Kniselcl said. Such problems as what academic aca-demic requirements shall be and setting the limits on financial fin-ancial aid to athletes will be ironed out. The presidents are also expected to approve a conference basketball schedule sche-dule for the 1968-69 year. This will be the first conference competition. Tentative conference plane call for strict enforcements of moderate financial aid to athletes. ath-letes. Kniseley indicated that the feeling of most conference members is that they desire a competitive conference among members, but that they want athletic programg which are financially reasonable. Important business meetings are scheduled for 8:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m., December 16, Dr. Darrell Holmes, president of Colorado State College and president of the conference, said. The RMAC divided Into a Mountain Division with nine schools and Plains Division with eight members. Represented in the Mountain Moun-tain Division are College of Southern Utah and Westminster Westmin-ster College from Utah; Regis, Western State, Fort Lewis, Colorado School of Mines and Adams State from Colorado, and Western New Mexico and Highlands from New Mexico. The Plains Division includes Omaha University from Nebraska; Ne-braska; Kansas State Teachers, Teach-ers, Fort Hays State, Kansas |