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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 18

competition to equalize and otherwise modify the various participation rules of the several colleges and schools in the University of Illinois. Incidentally, a limited study of about 400 athletes certified for competition in all intercollegiate sports during 1938-1939 (and including football and polo teams of 1939) shows that our scholastic probation rule, which is the point at issue here, affected only 20, or five per cent. Of these 20 who were placed on probation, and kept from athletic competition, ten were subsequently dropped from the University for scholastic delinquencies and three were subsequently readmitted. T h e survivors thus represent only three per cent of the entire athletic group, and these are among the very weakest scholastically. H a d the men on probation been allowed to participate in intercollegiate sports, it may be that a larger number would have been dropped from the University than actually were. 4. F o r many years the Athletic Association has been giving legitimate employment (e.g., as ticket sellers, gate men, ushers, and skating rink guards) to athletes. H o w much more they can do is for the Directors of the Athletic Association to determine in the light of Conference regulations and policies. 5. It is not clear what more can be done under this heading because there has always been cooperation between the Athletic Department and the Student Employment Bureau in the matter of giving employment to athletes. There are more students seeking employment than there are available part-time jobs in the University and in the local community. Consequently, it is the policy of the Bureau to ascertain the degree of financial need and other pertinent facts in case of each applicant, and to assign jobs accordingly. Thus, students who must have work in order to remain in the University and who are in good scholastic standing are given consideration ahead of those whose circumstances do not require immediate employment or whose scholastic records are not satisfactory. T h e Director of the Employment Bureau also acts as Personnel Officer in the assignment of jobs under the National Youth Administration's program of part-time aid for college students. However, he must consider the entire student body and not special groups. It would manifestly be unfair and not in keeping with the N.Y.A. program to favor any particular group. T h e committee in charge of the N.Y.A. program is inquiring about the practices of other universities in the Western Intercollegiate Conference in giving athletes employment on N.Y.A. projects. If this study indicates any changes in our own practice are in order, they will, of course, be given due consideration. In the meantime, it is interesting to note that during the first semester of 1939-1940 the Employment Bureau placed a higher percentage of athletes in N.Y.A. jobs than the percentage of the student body as a whole thus aided. M r . P o g u e c o m m e n t e d in detail on this resolution a n d s t a t e m e n t . O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , a n d b y u n a n i m o u s c o n s e n t o f t h e B o a r d , t h e p r o v i s i o n of A r t i c l e V I I I of t h e B y - L a w s r e q u i r i n g n o t i c e a t t h e b e g i n n i n g of a m e e t i n g w a s w a i v e d , a n d A r t i c l e I V , S e c t i o n 6, of t h e B y - L a w s w a s a m e n d e d t o p r o v i d e f o r t h e a d d i t i o n of a s t a n d i n g c o m mittee on Athletic Activities. President M a y e r appointed the following standing committee, M r . P o g u e , C h a i r m a n , M r . M o s c h e l , M r . J e n s e n . T h i s m a t t e r of t h e r e s o lution a n d c o m m e n t s w a s r e f e r r e d to this committee for consideration and report. A t this point, President M a y e r asked M r s . P l u m b to take the chair, a n d w i t h d r e w for a time. REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE

Mr. Pogue, for the Finance Committee, presented the following report:

SALE OF SECURITIES

Included among endowment investments held at the present time are $5,000 par Utah Power & Light ist mortgage bonds due 1944, held with a book value