The club sports advisory board recommended that the Syracuse University men’s club ice hockey team be suspended for the fall semester, said Joe Lore, assistant director of recreation services.

The board also recommended that the team be placed on probation for the spring semester, he added.

The club sports advisory board is the governing body for the club sports program, Lore said. ‘Part of their charge is to ensure that clubs adhere club sport and student organization policy. They met to discuss some possible violations of the club sport handbook and the code of student conduct.’

One cause of the team’s reprimand is that several members hung up posters that advertise promotional items that are unsanctioned by the club sports advisory board, Lore said.

Lori said there were other violations by the team, but he refused to go in depth about any of them.

Lori, who advises the board, said that the decision to suspend the team lies within the power of the advisory board.

‘The club sports are about students. They are student organizations, and we leave the decision-making process in the hands of students,’ Lori said. ‘To have non-students or administrators make decisions after a decision by a student board has been made is not the direction we want to follow.’

Players on the team deferred all comments to their head coach Mike Morocco, who did not return phone calls.

Although the club hockey team may be suspended next season, there will still be the opportunity for other students to play hockey.

‘There is always an opportunity for students to play hockey at the Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion,’ Lore said. ‘(But) will this club be able to organize and conduct practices at the Tennity? No.’

Published on April 7, 2004 at 12:00 pm