The entire football coaching staff will be required to attend an NCAA compliance seminar and to take a closed-book exam on the NCAA's rules. The executive director of the Brown Sports Foundation will also be required to undergo similar seminars and the test.

Finally, the Brown Sports Foundation has been incorporated into Brown's development office, making it an official fundraising arm of the university and subject to university oversight.

Brown had declared the two students at the center of the matter ineligible for athletic play as a precautionary measure, but, following an NCAA decision, they were reinstated.

The eight recruits, meanwhile, will not face punishment. Some will enroll at Brown, and others have chosen to attend other colleges.

"The football matters all had to do with people who would be playing this coming year," Orleans said.

Although no school seems to be immune from the smallest of violations--an official visit past the allowed 48 hours because of weather conditions at the airport, for example--Orleans said infractions of Ivy League policy on the level of Brown's offenses are infrequent.

Ivy League student-athletes, Orleans said, should not feel pressured to play a sport in order to maintain access to a quality education.

"[Athletics] is a piece of the whole educational experience," Orleans said. "It's by no means the predominant piece."