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...year ago, the big question at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association was what to do about half a dozen colleges that more or less admitted violating the intercollegiate "Sanity Code." Some members were for throwing the violators out of the N.C.A.A. Last week, after a year's reflection, the N.C.A.A. tried a different approach to the problem: it threw out most of the Sanity Code instead...
...other actions last week the N.C.A.A: ¶ Dropped from the agenda all charges against last year's code violators. ¶ Passed a resolution against the "live" (i.e., while the game is being played) telecasting of regular-season college football next fall, left it up to member schools to comply or not, as they thought best. ¶ Agreed that member schools should not play in post-season bowl games unless the price is right, i.e., teams must be guaranteed 75% of the gross receipts...
...football player who once tried to escape from the area. He was, the reports say, stopped before he could reach the border. This is probably a fiction, but it illustrates by ridiculous example the workings of the school's active supporters. Alumni activities were not covered by the Sanity Code...
Comedy becomes slapstick, courage becomes arrant braggadocio, and even the celebrated nose assumes absurd proportions under Ferrer's touch. He forgets that the one extreme about which Cyrano's character revolves is that of unswerving devotion to a personal code of honor. By removing this one characteristic of universal appeal from Cyrano, Ferrer has also taken away the element of audience self-identification, perhaps the most important aspect of the play. This is not to say that Ferrer's acting is not often superb. It is. In the balcony and convent scenes, he extracts the utmost from Rostand's brilliant...
...faithfully complying with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's "sanity code," which prohibits the wholesale hiring of football talent, University of Richmond had won its reward-defeat in twelve of its last 14 football games. Last week, after wrestling with the problem for three years, President George Modlin threw in the towel. Richmond is abandoning the code, he announced, as the only alternative to withdrawing from the rough & ready Southern Conference, where four colleges are already in open defiance of the code...