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ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Mr. Tebell stated that the University had been invited to join a new athletic conference
composed of seven schools - North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Wake Forest, Maryland,
South Carolina, and Clemson. Mr. Tebell recommended that the University join this new conference
for the following reasons

• 1. We have been a "lone wolf" too long.

• 2. Scheduling is getting more difficult.

• 3. Students prefer a conference school.

• 4. If we join now, we can participate in setting up rules which we could all live by.

• 5. For economic reasons, we need football games which will draw crowds to support all
  of our athletic program.

• 6. The publicity and prestige for the players which conference membership would bring.

After further discussion, the Rector thanked Mr. Tebell, who left the meeting.

The President was asked to comment on the proposed conference. He stated that the
Advisory Council on Athletics has recommended that we join. He has talked on the telephone with
President Gordon Gray of the University of North Carolina, and President Hollis Edens of Duke.
They would both like to see Virginia a member of the conference. The President recommended that
the Board authorize him to work with the Presidents of the seven institutions mentioned above in an
effort to establish a new conference and to draw up appropriate rules and regulations to govern it,
with the stipulation, however, that before the University could enter, such rules and regulations
must be submitted to the Board of Visitors.

A resolution was adopted authorizing the President to carry out his recommendations, and
The Rector was requested to call a special meeting of the Board to consider the matter, should this
be necessary.