Northwestern President Henry S. Bienen has joined the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

The Commission will host the first Faculty Summit on Intercollegiate Athletics in Washington D.C., on October 15, 2007, at the National Press Club.

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics was formed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in October 1989 in response to more than a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports. The goal of the commission was to study and report on reform efforts that recognize and emphasize academic values in a climate in which commercialization of college sports often over shadowed the underlying goals of higher education. The commission, which presented recommendations in a series of reports in the early 1990s and in the subsequent A Call to Action in 2001, continues to monitor and report on progress in increasing presidential control, academic integrity, financial integrity and independent certification of athletics programs.

I think it signified the end of the 20th Century.

-Professor Peter Hayes on the Fall of the Berlin Wall