SIDELINES : Vote Against Penn State Seen

The Indiana University president has indicated that he will vote against admission of Penn State to the Big Ten Conference if the IU Athletics Committee does not support the proposal.

Committee member Haydn Murray said he expects IU President Thomas Ehrlich to follow the committee’s recommendation.

Ehrlich, reached after a meeting of the Faculty Council on Tuesday, said he would “do what was in Indiana University’s best interests.”

He said he does not want to speculate at this time what he will do if he disagrees with the committee’s recommendation.

The committee chairman, Marianne Mitchell, said the group will recommend that Penn State not join the conference if an investigation shows that the university or the Big Ten would be harmed by its admission.