The Student Council athletic committee, which is now conducting an exhaustive study of the college's sports program, will concentrate on appraising the Freshman Physical Training program and the plight of small varsity sports.

In its examination of the PT program, the group will try to reconcile its objectives with the University's tradition of "few regulations," according to Abraham Lowenthal '61, committee member. In this approach, however, the committee may encounter stiff opposition from Nathaniel Parker, Director of the PT program, who said yesterday that he is still unhappy about the last liberalization of the program.

This change, which reduced the PT obligations of working freshmen, was effected two years ago, at the recommendation of a similar Council report.

Another area which the eight-man committee plans to investigate, the financial problems of small varsity sports, has been the subject of heated controversy since last year, when a slash of $100,000 from the athletic budget left six teams penniless. Lacrosse team coach Bruce Munro complained yesterday of his team's plight, claiming that he had been forced to ask friends at Dartmouth and Princeton to board his teams free of charge.

In its study of atheltic ethics, the group has corresponded with such notables as Lou Little, the Associated Press "Coach of the Half Century," and W. Barry Wood '31, vice-president of Johns Hopkins and "prototype of the scholar-athlete."