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Concordia’s athletics confirmed crooked
MONTREAL (CUP) — Con- sordia University’s athletics department has been found guilty of making indirect pay— ments to its varsity athletes, a confidential report has revealed.
The report is from an internal investigation launched last December following stories. in the university’s stu- dent newspaper, The Link,
which showed varsity athletes were paid under the table to play for Concordia.
The
Canadian Inter-
University Athletics Union, the league in which Con- cordia teams play, strictly forbids its members from paying its athletes, according to John McConnachie, CIAU public relations di— rector.
The report says the athlectics department paid for some athlete’s books, tuition and living expenses, helped them find high-paying student jobs, lent them money and promises potential recruits “pocket money”.
Concordia faces still penal- ties from the CIAU over the issue.
This summer the CIAU found Brandon University in Manitoba guilty of paying its athletes. The university was put on one year’s probation. None of the university’s teams can appear in televised matches and if the institution violates anymore rules, the CIAU plans to throw the teams out of university athletics.
“Some of the top CIAU
officials are ex-employees of the Concordia athletics de- partment, so don’t count on them to take any action,” says a Concordia coach who asked not to be identified. When The Link originally published the allegations last year, the CIAU said it would wait for the investigator’s
report before taking any action . The investigation com—
mittee, headed by recently elected Conservative MP Marcel Danis. says men’s
basketball players were give work through the university’s ‘zident work program.
‘ university is led to believe that the student work programme is available to all students,” the report states, “when in fact, it clearly serves the ends of the athletics department in general and varsity athletes in particular.”
The report also reveals since 1981, recipients of stu- tent worlr. jobs have been overpaid and often did not work at all. '
The report says money from the summer sports lea- gues and camps run by staff in the summer is unaccounted for by the university.
Concordia summer basket- ball lcague, run by a Con- cordia coach for Montreal area teams, has been can- celled without explanation. Basketball coach Doug Daigneault has refused to comment.
The committee blames no one person for the depart- ment’s wrongdoings but it recommends a series of financial safeguards be adopted to half further abuse.
Ed Enos, the athletics director who has been em- broiled in controversy this past year over his manage- ment of the department, refused to comment on the
Since the renort‘s release, the findings.
Record review
Nugent “hasn’t got the grab”
TED NUGENT “PENETRATOR” (Atlantic Records) By Glen Boswell
Attention, all week-end warriors and Wango Tango ' enthusiasts — ‘Terrible Ted’ is back.
Our little Ted, however, is all grown'up. “one frtrever is that "'\ loincloth (or foxtail) caveman that thrilled/ embarm» ms fans with such musical extravaganzas as “Terminus Eldorado”, “Cat Scratch Fever" and last, but not least. “Wango Tango”.
It seems that Ted got all fed up with not being taken seriously as a musician anymore and axed his entire band an album or so ago. '
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_ His new group is impressive. When you’re as rich as Nugent If ,1 is, you can afford to pick and choose. _— _._ L J _ ,_ “x... :3 r: =;‘ 5 €_-_ 5 g: = g; : ,—_ The album is certainly not the old Nugent, but on the lead breaks that old “Nuge” sparkle still comes through. i z '7 E '2‘ == " a '4 = == = = ’4 '-' = = = "'5 '- = _ Let’s get one thing straight; Nugent is a lead guitarist and
he makes it known on each and every album. I was pleased, however, to find that he does not use “Penetrator” simply as a showcase for his talents.
Brian Howe lays down solid lead vocal tracks for all but three cuts on the album. The thing that will grab you about Brian Howe is how much he sounds like Lou Gramm of Foreigner. In fact much of side one sounds like Foreigner and that’s a definite change of course for Ted.
“Penetrator” is full of surprises — some pleasant, Some not.
Are you ready for keyboards? The mix of Ted’s guitar riffs and keyboards is hard to get used to and is downright laughable in “Blame It On the Night” and “Draw the line”. That can’t be blamed on the talents of keyboardist Alan St. Jon who does admirable work on “Tied Up In Love” and “Knockin’ At Your Door”.
Besides Nugent himself, the shining talent on this album is clearly bass player Doug Lubahn. Watch out for some nifty bass work on “Don’t You Want My Love” and “No Man’s Land”. ,
“Forget about those guys! What about Nugent?”
Glad you asked. Ted does some killer lead work on this
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