PRINTER'S NO. 1563
No. 95 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY RICHARDSON, GLADECK, ROBINSON, NAHILL, PRESSMANN,
VEON, ACOSTA, BISHOP, CARN, EVANS, HARPER, HUGHES, JAMES,
LINTON, OLIVER, PRESTON, ROEBUCK, THOMAS, WILLIAMS AND
R. C. WRIGHT, APRIL 26, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, APRIL 26, 1989
A RESOLUTION
1 Urging Pennsylvania colleges and universities to rescind support
2 for Proposition 42.
3 WHEREAS, The National Collegiate Athletic Association has
4 seen fit to amend its previous student athlete admission
5 requirements for member institutions; and
6 WHEREAS, The NCAA seeks to eliminate and/or restrict members
7 of the NCAA from awarding scholarship and financial aid; and
8 WHEREAS, This action will have a significantly negative
9 impact on African Americans and other ethnic minority student
10 athletes; and
11 WHEREAS, This action has been opposed by academicians,
12 student athletes and coaches, and by concerned parents whose
13 children are directly impacted by this decision; therefore be it
14 RESOLVED, That the members of the House of Representatives of
15 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania implore the Pennsylvania
16 colleges and universities that have supported Proposition 42 to
17 recant the verbal support and rescind their votes in favor of
1 this racially biased and potentially damaging proposition.
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