The following is an article from the Boston Herald, Tuesday, August 16, 1994.
Page 67:
 
MAINE BEGINS OPERATION COMPLIANCE
 
   The University of Maine's athletic compliance office is still located in a
windowless former storage room.  But Maine officials, still stung by a
humiliating series of compliance problems last year, say the operation has been
given an open-ended budget and campus-wide support.
   "That's the biggest change, getting more of the campus involved in a direct
way," said Robert Whelan, an assistant to school president Frederick
Hutchinson.  "The main offices are taking more of an ownership role in
compliance.  It's a more integrated campus effort."
   The university had several compliance problems last year, including
eligibility violations involving five athletes who didn't take enough courses
to compete.  Before the scandal was over, Maine forfeited more than 40 games,
the compliance officer had been fired and athletic director Michael Ploszek
had resigned.
   Any eligibility problems are much more likely to surface sooner this year.
The university has provided the compliance program with four computers, one
each in the offices for financial aid, the registrar, academic support and
compliance.  The computers link the four camput areas for monitoring the
athletic eligibility of students under NCAA rules.
   The university is also using new software developed and distributed at no
cost by the NCAA for tracking student's eligibility.  Now, if a student's
credit hours or other records deviate from NCAA rules, a warning appears on the
screen.  Also, the office has computer access to the NCAA's national clearing-
house of freshman eligibility.  The office is run by acting compliance
coordinator Tammy Light.  She was assistant to the former compliance official,
Woody Carville.
   "It was a painful way to get here," said Light, who uncovered most of last
year's eligibility violations.  "I think this is what Woody was trying to do
for a lot of years.  This was always his dream.  It was made easy for me
because of everything that happened.  We got some attention from outside that
the athletic department really needed help."
   Maine isn't making up the system as it goes along.  A Kansas-based law firm
that specializes in NCAA compliance matters has been hired to advise the
university on its new system.  Bond, Schoeneck & King will be paid from
unrestricted university funds, a spokesman at Maine said.
   Light said the new system has already eliminated the circumstances that led
hockey coach Shawn Walsh to be suspended for playing an ineligible freshman
last year.
   And the new system has already discovered one student who is ineligible this
fall.
 
 
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Well, my take is that the article is just stating that, in the area of
eligibility, Maine is making sure they don't mess up again.
 
No more, no less.
 
Tony  BU'92'93
Former Ogre