today's gazette has an article on this.
The voters are 424 representatives, one from each of the 424 division
III NCAA member institutions.  The 8 affected schools are

St. Lawrence - Mens & Womens Hockey
Clarkson - Mens & Womens Hockey
RPI - Mens Hockey
CC - Mens Hockey and Womens Soccer
Johns Hopkins - Mens & Womens Lacrosse
Hartwick - Womens Water POlo
SUNY Oneonta - Mens Soccer
Rutgers Newark - Mens Volleyball

CC athletics director Joel Nielson is reported as being "concerned
with" the proposed legislation.

Apparently, the 8 schools are planning to submit an amendment to the
legislation to exempt them from the legislation.  Failing that, the
next step would apparently be to convince a majority of schools to
vote down the proposal.

It seems that the proposal originated because in a survey 59 percent
of the D-III schools to some degree supported eliminating multi
division classification

An alternative, if this legislation is adopted, would be for CC to
move to division II.  My suspicion is that the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference would welcome CC.  There are 6 RMAC schools within 100
miles of CC.



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