played Utah State University which was the first time the two schools had met on the basketball court since Weber had achieved senior status. Weber was victorious in the basketball contest held in the new Spectrum building in Logan which housed Aggie athletic events by a score of 63 to 62. Phil Johnson resigned as basketball coach at the end of the 1970-1971 school year to become an assistant to Dick Motta with the Chicago Bulls and was replaced by former player and assistant coach, Eugene C. Visscher. Early in 1973, football coach Sark Arslanian resigned and was replaced by Richard Dick Gwinn. The Weber golf team was particularly successful over the years under the direction of Mac Madsen. In January of 1975, Eugene Visscher resigned as basketball coach and was replaced by Neil McCarthy. McCarthy coached at Weber for a decade, resigned at the end of the 1985 basketball season and was replaced by Larry Farmer. After three seasons at Weber, Farmer was replaced as basketball coach during March of 1988 by Denny Huston. Early in 1977, Dick Gwinn was replaced as football coach by Pete Riehlman, and at the same time, Dale Gardner was replaced as athletic director by Gary Crompton. In December of 1980, Riehlman was replaced by Mike Price as football coach, and in March of 1988, Price replaced Crompton as athletic director. One of the challenges of the athletic department throughout the decade of the 1970s and 1980s was fielding both men and womens athletic teams commensurate with Title IX with no additional funding and yet remain competitive. During the 1967-1968 school year the Board of Trustees made several important decisions. Tuition and fees were increased beginning with the 1968-1969 school year: 15 per quarter for residents and 245 per quarter for non residents. The site for a new administration building was approved during November. The board agreed to allow the Weber administration to approve out of state travel requests without having to have each request come individually before the board. At the September 17, 1968 meeting of the Board, the 1940 American Association of University Professors statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure was accepted upon recommendation from the Academic Council and the administration as providing the basic principles for academic freedom and tenure at Weber. On March 18, 1969, an official Weber State College flag was adopted in an effort to maintain the tradition of an earlier school flag. It was white with a purple seal and wreath fringed in purple. The original flag was made by Ann Lund Moyes, a member of the Board of Directors of the Weber State College Alumni Association. On April 21, 1968, President William Miller and his wife Mary were injured in a very serious automobile accident while on their way to Pocatello, Idaho to attend a Rotary District Conference. About four miles north of Downey, their car left the road and rolled several times to the bottom of a gully and stopped upside down. Mary Miller was thrown from the car and was badly cut and bruised, but except for some bruises and cuts, President Miller thought he was not seriously injured. As they were being treated at the Downey Hospital, President Miller suffered a heart attack. For the next six months, Miller remained at his Ogden home and directed campus affairs over the telephone. Robert A. Clarke, Administrative Vice President, served as act-ing president during Millers convalescence. In September of 1968, the College was notified that the Utah State Department of Public Instruction had accredited the Teacher Education program at Weber for a five-year period. At the same time the Utah Coordinating Council on Higher Education had approved three new programs for Weber State College: a four-year program in Family Life Education; a four-year program in Data Processing; a two-year program in Distributive Education. During September of 1968, the College began negotiations with the L.D.S. Church to exchange land on the north side of the campus owned by the College for Church owned Institute of Religion property adjacent to the campus on the south and west. The agreements reached were approved by the Attorney General, the Board of Examiners, and the L.D.S. Church. Arrangements were made for the Church to continue to use the Institute of Religion building for two years while a new building was constructed on the north side of campus. Following the completion of a new Institute building on Edvalson Street, the old building was remodeled by the college and used by Student Personnel, Continuing Education, and the department of Communications. In September of 1968, it was also agreed that the college would purchase property owned by the Catholic Church at 3850 Harrison Boulevard to allow better access to the campus. The College agreed that with the land purchase it would assist the Catholic Church to locate land for a Newman Center. The Newman Center was eventually constructed on Edvalson Street on the north side of the campus, and completed in 1974. In September of 1968, it was agreed to name the new high rise residence hall Promontory Towers after the Promontory Mountain Range. In November of 1968, the organization of the Wildcat Club was formally approved, primarily to assist in promoting and financing college athletic activities. Initial membership fees were set at 15 a year for regular members and 100 a year for membership in the Century Club. The director of athletics and the president of the College were members of the Board of Directors, while other members of the board would be elected by the membership of the Wildcat Club. The 1969 Utah State Legislature drastically reorganized the governance of public higher education in Utah. Senate Bill 10, officially termed the Utah Higher Education Act of 1969, abolished the Board of Regents of the University of Utah, the Boards of Trustees for Utah State University, Weber State College, and Southern Utah State College as well as the Utah Coordinating Council on Higher Education. The new bill placed the institutions of higher education under the control of a new State Board of Higher Education (later to be named the Board of Regents). The State Board of Higher Education was composed of fifteen members appointed by the Governor. Generally, the institutions of higher education in the state had opposed the concept passed in Senate Bill 10. Weber State College administration, faculty, and Board of Trustees had opposed the proposed action over several years because of the fear that all higher education would be controlled by the Salt Lake City area. The original bill did not include provisions for local governance of colleges but as it finally passed the bill