Shepard Raps Basketball in Garden for Effect on Sports

Basketball coach Norm Shepard, commenting on the Manhattan College basketball scandal, was quoted by the Associated Press yesterday as saying.

"To me, basketball in Madison Square Garden represents the height of commercialism in college athletics. Divorced from the environment and influence of institutional control, it represents everything that college athletics should not be. Incidents of this kind could have a wholesome effect if they would lead college administrators to re-examine the objectives of their intercollegiate athletic program."