The University Council Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics had its last meeting of the spring Thursday night, with its main agenda being a study it requested from the Office of Institutional Research on class clustering.

“We wanted to see if there was any kind of evidence of abuse of any classes (by student-athletes),” committee chairman Malcolm Adams said.

The results overwhelmingly showed that this was not the case, with the classes with the highest percentage of student-athletes being those such as freshman seminars meant to orient student-athletes on the demands of college, remedial or graduate level classes and a physical education class system that allows University athletes to get their one-hour credit for their participation in Varsity sports.

“The overall evidence seems to show that they are not just going for easy As,” Adams, a professor in the math department, said. “It’s more just scheduling issues and things like that.”

William Barstow, representative to the Athletic Association Board of Directors, agreed with Adams’ interpretation of the findings. “There’s nothing in there that jumps out and says we’re doing anything to favor athletes,” he said.

Even in other classes that highly consisted of athletes, the student-athletes’ grades were on average lower than non-athlete students, further supporting Barstow and Adams’ statements and the committee’s findings.

In addition, the committee agreed to recommend to next year’s committee members that the study on class clustering become a yearly practice.