The most critical issues in intercollegiate sport are examined here from a variety of perspectives. The same general challenges, in varying forms, have confronted those responsible for intercollegiate sport from 19890 to the present day. The time has come to reexamine these problems in the light of new research (such as the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletes) and new analyses; and to review our old solutions to see where they should be adapted, where maintained, and where abandoned.

RICHARD E. LAPCHICK is Director of the Sport Business Management Program at the College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida. His program focuses on business skills for a successful career in the changing sports industry. He is the author of Rules of the Game, a title in the Macmillan/ACE Series (1989). Lapchick has also written about South African sports in The Politics of Race and International Sport (1975), and about women under Apartheid in Oppression and Resistance (1982), both for Greenwood Publishing. He has been named six times as 'one of the 100 most powerful people in sport.' Lapchick is also a human rights activist, and has won the Ralph Bunche International Peace Award.