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The search committee for IU's new athletics director isn't wasting time to find a replacement as an advertisement and Web site were both released Thursday by IU Alumni Association President Ken Beckley, the chairman of the search committee.\nThe advertisement will be sent through traditional media in addition to e-mail. It will also be sent to major college sports conferences around the nation and those who expressed interest in the job. The committee announced a July 16 deadline for applicants to submit resumes, with a final selection for applicants to be in August.\nThere are seven qualifications listed on the advertisement, including significant experience in fiscal planning and budget management and understanding and appreciation of the role of intercollegiate athletics within a leading university.\nThe seven guidelines listed are important, but other qualifications listed on the Web site are equally vital, Beckley said. \n"We feel the seven in the ad are the leading ones. It would have been impossible to list all the qualifications in the advertisement," Beckley said. "We feel it is an excellent ad, that leads (applicants) to a Web site that has a huge amount of details on the qualification and the University."\nThe Web site, which was launched in conjunction with the advertisement, includes more details about IU and lists a total of 12 qualifications.\nAngela Tharp, from the Office of Communications and Marketing, and Thomas Atkinson, campus Web manager helped create the Web site along with Beckley.\nThe added features on the site include past releases about the position of athletics director along with background of the University and the athletics department.\nBefore the release of the advertisement, the search committee met with current Athletics Director Terry Clapacs Monday at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center\nClapacs provided insight on the job and helped present the committee with ideas that may not have been looked at before, along with the possibility of Clapacs helping the committee in the future Beckley said.\nClapacs could not be reached for comment at press time.\nDespite the advertisement being out less than a week, it has been successful thus far, Beckley said.\n"Within 48 hours after President (Adam Herbert) announced (the position being open), it had spread throughout the U.S.," Beckley said. "We've already had applications submitted."\nThe committee won't purely be relying on candidates to submit applications themselves, as the committee will look at nominated candidates from sports organizations that were sought when the committee was formed.\nWith the release of the advertisement and launching of the Web site two weeks after the official announcement of the search, Beckley said the committee is keeping its aggressive approach.\n"We are going to be very proactive in contacting potential candidates and to inquire about candidates," Beckley said. "We are going to be very aggressive in supplementing that action by contacting prospects who come to us. That is the great benefit of going to commissioners of major conferences, and getting the names of prospects."\n-- Contact staff writer Dan Click at daaclick@indiana.edu.