Otani made his announcement to dissuade Japanese professional teams from choosing him in the high school draft on Thursday.
Members of the meeting would sit on the school's steering committee, and if the school drafted new bylaws, they would require that Quaker principles be upheld.
After Otani said there was zero chance he would stay in Japan, only the Nippon Ham Fighters chose him in the Japanese high school draft in October.
But when so many of the high school draft picks have turned into stars, it is certainly questionable why a business rule would be necessary to prevent the practice.
This trend held with the high school draft classes of 2002 through 2005, the year the ban was put in place: of the 26 players drafted, 20 were still playing through last season and three have become superstars: Amar'e Stoudemire, Dwight Howard and James.
Lisa Guernsey Correction: August 21, 2004, Saturday An article in Circuits on Thursday about teachers' efforts to counter the distractions of electronic gadgets in class misidentified a software program used by one teacher, Nancy Kemp of Cairo, Ga., with her high-school drafting students.
Speaking of her class at Harvard, she recalled, "My year was the first year that graduate-school draft deferrals for men were cut way back.
Under the package of reforms, known collectively as Tomorrow's Schools, the central Ministry of Education continues to fund schools, draft national curriculum guidelines and operate an accountability system under which teams from an independent Education Review Office visit schools.
They should demand a full-fledged review of the curricula at their schools, draft their own course-ware and write a new set of rules for businesses to follow.
Like the United States, Japan has its own baseball royalty, and the princes are high school players drafted by the Yomiuri Giants.
Chris Gruler, a high school pitcher drafted third by the Reds, received a $2.5 million bonus after a predraft agreement.
