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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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capacity will be responsible for the programmatic and fiscal functions of the Athletic Association, which will be preserved as a separate not-for-profit corporation. T h e proposal seeks to clarify responsibilities and accountability for the conduct of intercollegiate athletics. It also will ensure effective faculty control of intercollegiate athletics, while continuing to provide for student and alumni representation. T h e nineteen-member Athletic Board of Control will be comprised of the University's faculty representative and alternate faculty representative to the Intercollegiate (Big T e n ) Conference of Faculty Representatives, eight additional faculty members, the chairman of the board of directors of the Alumni Association, four additional alumni, two students, the vice chancellor for administrative affairs (ex officio, without vote), and the University comptroller or designee (ex officio, without vote). Faculty, student, and alumni members will be elected as members of the Board of Control and as directors of the Athletic Association by the Board of Trustees on recommendation of the president and chancellor who will recommend faculty and students from nominees proposed by the Urbana-Champaign Senate and alumni from nominees proposed by the Alumni Association. T h e faculty representatives and alternate faculty representatives will serve as voting members of the board during their terms as representatives, which may not exceed ten years. The same is true of the chairman of the Alumni Association Board who serves a two-year term. Eight faculty and four alumni members will serve four-year terms, and students will serve two-year terms. T h e initial terms will be staggered so that two new faculty, one alumnus, and one student member are elected by the Board of Trustees in each succeeding year. Members of the Athletic Board of Control will take office concurrently with the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Athletic Association. Recommendations for the composition of the new Athletic Board of Control and their election as directors of the Athletic Association will be presented to the Board of Trustees prior to that date each year. The board of directors of the Athletic Association has proposed amendments to the association's Bylaws to reflect the changes described, along with other amendments in the form presented in the attached document. T h e amendments will become effective upon their approval by the Board of Trustees and the initial terms of the directors elected pursuant to the amendments will commence with the April 1982 annual meeting of the board of directors. T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate, following recommendations provided by the current Senate Committee on Athletics and Recreation, voted on January 18, 1982, to amend is Bylaws to establish the Athletic Board of Control, effective with the 1982 annual meeting of the board of directors of the Athletic Association, and to establish a separate Senate Committee on Recreation. Those changes will be reported by the senate to the Board of Trustees in the customary fashion. The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended approval of the amendments to the Bylaws of the Athletic Association as described and as displayed in the attached document. (The documents displaying the specific amendatory language are filed with the secretary for record. For reference, see the revised text of the Bylaws as published by the Athletic Association.) I concur.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved. Agreement with Baxter Travenol Laboratories (Exception to the General Rules)

( I I ) T h e Baxter Travenol Laboratories of Deerfield, Illinois, and University Patents, Inc. ( U P I ) , are negotiating an option agreement whereby Baxter would have the right to an exclusive license to use an invention developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle campus which is the subject of a patent assigned