Spring, 2002
Editor’s Note: Please read the following:
(1) President’s Message
(2) IAPS 2002 Meeting, Penn State University, State College, PA. USA.
(3) Papers accepted but not presented at Williamsburg…see
note.
(4) Call for Officer Nomination
(5) IAPS Newsletter on line
(6) IAPS
Journal News
(7) Constitution
Revision Proposals
Nicholas Dixon, IAPS President 2002
I hope that your academic year is proceeding well. We are fast approaching the time of year when abstracts are due for our upcoming annual meeting at Penn State in October. I hope that you will all submit abstracts to president-elect and program chair Sigmund Loland, following the instructions in the call for papers contained in this newsletter. Please ensure that your abstracts arrive by the April 20 deadline, in order that the program committee have ample time to review submissions, propose a schedule, and work with the site coordinator in making logistical arrangements. Those of you who would like to present papers that were accepted for the Williamsburg meeting but that you did not present there should resubmit, indicating that your abstract was accepted last year. All such resubmitted abstracts will automatically be included on the program for Penn State. (However, in the event of a large number of submissions, the program committee may have to restrict each author to one paper presentation at Penn State.)
Elsewhere in this newsletter, you will find a proposal to change from the current IAPS structure of president-elect, president, and past president to a new framework in which the president serves a two-year term. My motivation in writing this proposal, which was endorsed by the IAPS executive in fall 2001, was to give a clear explanation of the rationale for and the logistical changes required by an idea—the two-year presidency—that has been discussed ever since I’ve been involved with IAPS. In order to make the two-year presidency a more attractive option for potential candidates, my proposal also includes the abolition of the roles of president-elect and past president, whose duties will be taken over by the new positions of conference chair and elections chair, respectively. Please read over the proposal, which we will discuss and vote on at the business meeting (open to all IAPS members) during the conference at Penn State. If approved by 2/3 of those who vote at the Penn State business meeting, the proposal will then be put before the entire IAPS membership on a mail ballot after the conference.
I am very grateful to Scott Kretchmar for offering to host this year’s meeting at Penn State and also to Mike McNamee for offering to host the 2003 meeting at the University of Gloucestershire in England. We are still debating the location of our 2004 meeting. Strong support was expressed at our Williamsburg meeting last October for holding our 2004 conference in conjunction with the ICSSPE Pre-Olympic Congress in Greece. However, we have yet to receive an assurance that enough time slots will be available to us at the congress to hold a bona fide IAPS annual meeting. Should this option not prove feasible, we are considering a second alternative: holding our meeting at a very attractive conference hotel in Italy just before the Pre-Olympic Congress, so that interested members could make the relatively short journey to Greece immediately after the IAPS conference.
I close with a gentle reminder to renew your IAPS membership for the 2001-2 year if you have not already done so. I am very excited about our upcoming annual meeting at Penn State in October. The return of colleagues who did not attend the highly successful Williamsburg meeting should make for an even better conference this year. Penn State is a wonderful location for our meeting: State College is a lively college town in a scenic setting and we can look forward to Scott’s good-humored and efficient guidance as site coordinator. I encourage you all to submit abstracts and to invite any interested colleagues to do so.
Sigmund Loland, President Elect
The
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of
abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2002 IAPS meeting. It will take place at the Pennsylvania State
University, USA, from Thursday, October 24 to Sunday, October 27.
Abstracts
are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including metaphysics, epistemology,
aesthetics and ethics, and from any theoretical approach, including analytic
philosophy and critical theory. In
addition to abstracts for papers, proposals for round table and panel
discussions, including a tentative list of participants, are also welcome and
should follow the same format as paper abstracts.
Abstracts
should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 20, 2002. The preferred mode of submission is by
e-mail. Please send your abstract as an
attachment, preferably in Word or Word Perfect. Contributors who do not have access to e-mail should feel free to
send a hard copy instead.
Please
submit e-mail copies of abstracts to sigmund.loland@nih.no
Please
send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to:
Sigmund
Loland
NIH,
P.O. Box 4014, Ullevål Stadion
0806
Oslo
Norway
Abstracts
will be reviewed by a program committee of three peers in IAPS. Contributors will be notified about the
acceptance or rejection of their abstracts by May 31, 2002.
R. S.
Kretchmar, Conference Coordinator
Greetings from Penn State, the site of the next annual IAPS conference. We have ordered sunshine and warm temperatures, but regardless of the weather we are certain to have a fine program and excellent fellowship. Hopefully, international travel will be safe at that time, and we will have a full complement of our overseas members. Given the events of last September, it will be good to have everyone back together again. We welcome you to come a day early and enjoy the central Pennsylvania area. The first session is, as always, on Thursday evening. The conference will run through noon on Sunday.
How to get on the program: You have two possibilities. 1) In order to present a paper, you need to send an electronic abstract (300-500 words) to Sigmund Loland by April 20. Abstracts are reviewed by the program committee and notification will follow by May 31. (e-mail: Sigmund.loland@nih.no) 2) If you would like to serve as a moderator for a session and need a letter of invitation to help in getting travel funding from your institution, please contact Scott Kretchmar: rsk1@psu.edu.
How to register and secure hotel reservations. Please see the accompanying reservation form: AT END OF NEWSLETTER. This must be filled out and returned to Scott Kretchmar at Penn State. Note the deadlines for lower registration rates (September 13) and guaranteed hotel reservations (September 25). Hotel reservations must be made yourself. The conference hotel is the Days Inn Penn State. For rooms call 1-800-258-3297, and identify yourself as an IAPS conference participant in order to receive the special rates. The Days Inn is a fine hotel located in downtown State College within easy walking distance of dozens of restaurants, ample shopping, and the Penn State campus. The hotel also has a large swimming pool and exercise room.
How to travel to State College. State College is located in the middle of Pennsylvania on state route 322. Interstate highway systems can be used to reach the area from most directions. For those arriving by airplane, State College is the flight destination. We are accessible from a number of U.S. airports including New York, Washington, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. Airlines that service State College are USAir, United, and Northwest. Your travel agent or on-line company should have no trouble in routing you to State College. Amtrak train service is available to Lewistown (from New York and points east) and Altoona (from Chicago and points west) Both destinations (Lewistown and Altoona) are about 45 minutes from State College, so car rental would be necessary to complete the trip. Schedules available at http://www.amtrak.com.
How to reach the Days Inn Penn State from the airport. A courtesy shuttle is available by calling the Days Inn from the airport (phone: 238-8454). Cab service is also available. (Courtesy phone by luggage area in airport lobby). Cost: approx. $11 to the Inn.
How to plan your recreation. You are invited to come a day early to enjoy a round of golf, some tennis, a few Penn State athletic events, or simply a jog around the Penn State campus. If you have particular interests in this regard, note them upon returning your registration. All greens fees, bike rentals, tennis court reservations or other recreational expenses must be paid by the participant. The best golf: Toftrees Resort. Championship course with woods, elevations, some water. (1-800-252-3551) A tour of the Amish country is planned during a recreation period on Friday afternoon. One of the major populations of Amish in the United States resides in a valley only 35 minutes from Penn State. The tour will include a history of the Amish and an opportunity to observe their horse-drawn-buggy, no-electricity, devoutly-simplified style of living. The tour is included in the registration fee.
How to plan your wardrobe. State College can be warm or cold in the end of October. It is likely that evenings will be in the 30’s (Fahrenheit) with the days warming to the 40’s or 50’s Farenheit.
Sigmund Loland, IAPS President Elect
All abstracts accepted for the Williamsburg conference that were not presented because of the international situation at the time will automatically be accepted for the 2002 Penn State conference. However, authors who want to take this opportunity will have to resubmit their abstracts with a note on their acceptance at the 2001 conference.
Mike McNamee, Past President IAPS
It is my duty as Past President to over see the election of new Officers on the IAPS executive. I ask you all to consider the suitability of potential candidates and to inform me of persons of good standing within the Association that you wish to nominate to serve IAPS. The Executive positions to be nominated are: (1) President, (2) Members at Large, and committee members for (3) Honors and Future Site Committee. Below find the duties for the three offices to be elected this term.
President : (Duties for three different years) :
The President-Elect shall - chair the Program Committee, which shall be responsible for establishing the program of the Annual Meeting, and which shall serve at the sufferance of the Executive Council: serve as, or appoint, a Conference Convener, who shall care for the logistic details of the Annual Meeting on site, who shall be confined by majority vote of the Executive Council, and who shall serve at the sufferance of the Executive Council; assume the duties of President if necessary; transmit a “Call for Papers” and a notice stipulating the time and place of the next Annual Meeting to the Newsletter Editor not more than one month following the Annual Meeting in which office is assumed; and transmit an account of the logistic arrangements and schedule of the learned sessions for the Annual Meeting not less than three months prior to the annual Meeting over which jurisdiction is held. The President shall - assume the executive responsibility of the Society; enforce the Constitution of the Society; schedule and preside over meetings of the Executive Council; schedule and preside over the annual General (Business) Meeting; prepare the agenda for meetings of the Executive Council and for the Annual General (Business) Meeting; solicit agenda items from the membership for Executive Council meetings and for the Annual General (Business) Meeting; appoint members to the Finance Committee, to the Constitution Committee, and to special (ad hoc) committees; appoint a Parliamentarian/Constitutionalist and an Archivist to three-year, renewable terms; both appointments shall be confirmed by majority vote of the Executive Council; the parliamentarian/Constitutionalist shall chair the Constitution Committee; the Archivist shall gather and preserve the records of the Society, s/he shall administer the repository of the Society; liaise with members of the Society; most notably, with members of the Executive Council and with members of standing and special committees; prepare and deliver the Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting; announce, commend, and publicize recipients of honors and awards; and represent the Society to the broader public. The Past-President shall - chair the Nominations, Elections, and Membership Committee; solicit nominations for President-Elect, two Members-at-Large, and a member of the Honors, Awards, and Future Sites Committee; and assist the Honors, Awards, and Future Sites Committee in the selection of its Chair
Members of Honours, Awards and Future Sites Committee (2
positions to stand for years - 2002-4, 2002-5)
Duties: The Honors, Awards, and Future Sites Committee shall consist of three Standard, Sustaining, or Emeritus Members of the Society, who have been members of the Society, at these levels, for a least the three consecutive years immediately preceding their nomination, and who shall be elected by the membership of the Society to rotating three-year terms (such that a vacancy come open each year). Current Officers of the Society may not serve on this Committee. The Chair of this Committee shall be elected by its members in a process initiated and conducted by the Past-President at the Annual Meeting in which they are installed/continued. It shall be the responsibility of this Committee to solicit/identify candidates for honors/awards, to prepare a slate of such candidates to be put before the membership for vote less than four months prior to the Annual Meeting in which the honors/awards are to be presented, to conduct the election itself (to be decided by a plurality of those voting), and to report the results of the election to the Executive Council not less than one month prior to the Annual Meeting in which the honors/awards are to be presented. It shall be likewise the responsibility of this Committee to solicit/identify candidates for Honorary Membership shall be brought to the Executive Council at least one month prior to the Annual Meeting in which they are to be considered. Candidates for future sites shall be brought to the Executive Council at least four months before the Annual Meeting prior ti that for which such sites are under consideration. It shall also be the responsibility of this Committee to study issues concerning honors, awards, and future sites brought to it by the Executive Council.
Members at large (2 officers to stand for years 2002-4)
Duties: The Members-at-Large shall - serve on
the Nominations, elections, and Membership Committee in the first year of their
terms; and serve on the Program
Committee in the second year of their terms.
Hence forth IAPS newsletter will be online only, except for
individuals who prefer to have hard copy.
To save both IAPS and the editor's resources, As well as giving members
faster access, future issues of this newsletter will be available only on the
IAPS newsletter web site at http://www.its.uidaho.edu/iaps (Note new
address). Members who lack internet
access should contact me by e-mail (sstoll@uidaho.edu) or regular mail S.
Stoll, 500 Memorial Gymnasium, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2429 to
request that hard copies of subsequent newsletters be mailed to them.
Remember to update your membership. Keep current. Standard membership is $36, US currency. For a membership form go to: http: //www.dmu.ac.uk/dept/schools/pesl/affiliat/iapsform.htm Or http://www.its.uidaho.edu/iaps
R. S. Kretchmar, Editor, IAPS Journal
Issue #1 of volume XXIX has been sent to the publishers. It includes articles by John Hughson (Merleau-Pontian Phenomenology of Soccer), Norm Fischer (Sport's Imitation of War), and Mike McNamee (Hubris, Humility and Humiliation--Vice and Virtue in Sporting Communities). Also Discussions by Michael Burke (Questions not Asked in HIV and Sport Discourses to Resist Discrimination), Jack Bowen (The Americans with Disabilities Act" and Its Application to Sport), and Mark Holowchak (Ergogenic Aids. . . Ethical Issues, Aesthetic considerations). Two review articles also appear: The Game of Life: College Sports and Education Values by Shulman & Bowen--reviewed by Bob Simon, and Sport Ethics: Concepts and Cases in Sport and Recreation by Mallow, Ross, and Zakis--reviewed by Ken Nickel. As always, my thanks to Nick Dixon for assisting with this volume and, in particular, securing the review essays.
Issue #2 is well underway with four special topics articles on embodiment and intelligence already in hand and several other articles moving through the review process. A few spots remain. Deadline for submissions is May 1. Note: If anyone would like to volunteer to review a new book, please contact our new review editor, Paul Davis. PDavis@uwic.ac.uk
N. Dixon, President IAPS
To be voted on by all IAPS members present at the business
meeting (annual general meeting) at the 2002 IAPS conference at Penn State in
October 2002.
The idea of a two year
presidency for IAPS has been floated a few times recently. The main reason behind it is very convincing:
by the time you’ve learned the ropes of various presidential duties, the year
is up and you don’t have the chance to take advantage of your newly-acquired
experience. The main downside to this
idea is that, with our current structure of presidents-elect and past
presidents, a two year presidency would require a six year commitment to some
significant IAPS administrative duties.
Many fine potential candidates would be deterred from running for
president by this burden. This proposal
is designed to preserve the advantage of a two year presidency while avoiding
this pitfall.
I suggest that we
abolish the positions of president-elect and past president. Instead, their duties—primarily organizing
the annual conference and annual elections, respectively—can be transferred to
two new two year executive positions: Conference Chair and Elections
Chair. Thus the person becoming
president would be making only a two year commitment to IAPS service, with no
president-elect or past president duties.
The very same benefits
of a two year presidency—familiarity and greater ease with the relevant
duties--would also apply to the new roles of conference chair and elections
chair. I can attest that, having just
completed my term as president-elect (conference chair), I would find it a
breeze to do it a second time.
It’s true that the
structure of past presidents and presidents elect adds continuity to the exec.,
but I would expect the same kind of continuity to exist under my proposal. That is, the typical route to the presidency
will be spending at least one two year term as a member at large, conference
chair, elections chair, or some other executive position.
We would only need to
hold elections for president, conference chair, and elections chair every two
years. To provide continuity on the
exec., it would make sense to hold elections for members-at-large during
off-years.
If approved by IAPS
members in the way prescribed for constitutional changes, the two-year
presidency and the new offices of conference chair and elections chair will
take effect in 2003. Here is the
chronology of events that will be necessary for ratification.
1. All
IAPS members must be notified of the proposed change at least one month before
the 2002 meeting at Penn State. This
announcement in the newsletter is well in advance of the requirement of one
month’s notice.
2. At
the annual general meeting at Penn State, a vote will be taken on the
proposal. A 2/3 majority will be
required in favor of the change before proceeding to the next step.
3. After
the meeting (perhaps in the fall 2002 newsletter), mail ballots will be
distributed to all IAPS members. A 2/3
majority will be necessary to pass the
constitutional change.
4. If
the proposal is passed, the elections held in summer/fall 2003 will include
nominees for conference chair and elections chair, but not for the discontinued
position of president-elect. The
president (who will have served as president-elect under the old system in
2002-3), conference chair and elections chair will begin their two year terms
in fall 2003 after the annual meeting.
Aside from strict
obedience to the constitution, a further advantage of waiting until 2003 to
enact the change is complete transparency.
Sigmund Loland will serve the one year term of presidency for which he
was elected, in addition to his current term as president-elect. And both voters in and candidates for the
2002 election for president-elect will be aware that, if the change is approved,
the winner will go on to be the first two year president in 2003-5.
I propose that,
starting in 2003, the following changes be made to the structure of the IAPS
executive offices:
1. That
the presidency be extended to a two-year term.
2. That
the offices of president-elect and past president be discontinued.
3. That
the duties of these discontinued offices be taken over by the new executive
offices of conference chair and elections chair, respectively, each of which
will be a two-year elected term.
4. That
all the relevant sections of the IAPS constitution be amended to reflect the
creation of these two new executive positions.
Endorsed by
IAPS Executive
R. S. Kretchmar, Editor, IAPS Journal
The Executive Board of IAPS has moved to amend the constitution to read as follows:
Article VI: Committees
Section 6: The
Editorial Review Board of the Journal shall consist of eight to ten up
to 15 members appointed by the Editor to two-year, renewable terms. It shall be the responsibility of the Board
to review, and to judge the suitability for publication of, all manuscripts
submitted to it by the Editor or the Associate Editor.
Rationale: R.Scott Kretchmar, current editor, states that the sense of the motion was not to mandate 15 reviewers but to permit the appointment for as many as 15 reviewers. The rationale is the difficulty in getting individuals to serve on the committee and to have a greater expertise available to review.
According to Article XII, Sections 1 and 2, Amendments must be published to the membership two months before the fall IAPS meeting, with the general membership voting on the amendment at the fall meeting. Hear ye: This change in the IAPS/PSSS constitution will be voted on at the fall, 2002 meeting at Penn State.
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The IAPS Newsletter is printed thrice yearly and serves as the
information tool of the society. President: Nicholas Dixon, Alma College, USA. dixon@alma.edu Past -President: Mike McNamee, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher
Education , UK. President - Elect: Sigmund Loland, Norwegian University for Sport and Physical
Education (NUSPE, Olso, Norway. Sigmund.Loland@nih.no Secretary-Treasurer: Alun Hardman, Cheltenham
& Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK. ahardman@chelt.ac.uk Members at Large: Heather Reid, Morningside College, USA.
reid@morningside.edu & Karin Volkwein, Westchester University,
USA. kvolkwein@wcupa.edu,
Bill Morgan, University of Tennessee,
USA. wmorgan1@utk.edu, Dennis Hemphill, Victoria University,
Melbourne, Australia, hemda@cougar.vut.edu.au Newsletter Editor: Sharon Kay Stoll, Center for ETHICS*, University of Idaho, USA. Journal Editor: R. Scott Kretchmar, Penn
State University, State College, PA.
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