THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRILS, 1978 Page 13 iWomen’s athletics making progress By MARK PATTERSON Battalion Sports Staff The single factor that served as catalyst for promoting women’s hletics at Texas A&M was a gov- iment act know as Title IX. [Published by the U.S. Depart- ;nt of Health, Education and Wel- e in 1975, the rule deals with ndiscriinination on the basis of in a variety of different fields. Concentrating on the athletic sec- in Title IX, the ruling states Hal' a person cannot be excluded m participating in athletics be- Buse of their sex. Also, the rule says pit equal opportunity in all areas of letics and equal programs at the lie competitive levels must be nished by schools for both sexes. But Title IX says nothing about jual binding in the areas of ath- ics for the sexes. And that is one that schools with women’s ath- programs are vastly different. [One of the causes for the differ- |ces between university programs ms directly from HEW’s passage Title IX. Though HEW desig- ■ [ted a set of rules and regulations ^ n( ^qual programs at pes he same competitive evels must be furnished tojfollow regarding men and wo p’s athletics, they haven’t written V\ a set of guidelines to follow in carry ing out their rulings. “Without their (HEW’s) guidance we re not too clear on Title IX,” said Kay Don, assistant athletic director and head of women’s athletics at Texas A&M. “We don’t know if what we re doing so far is right or not. Right now, all we can do is hope that we’re moving in the right direction.” The direction that Don is trying to move the women’s program is in anticipation of HEW’s future guidelines concerning Title IX. But Don isn’t alone in her strug gle to upgrade women’s athletic programs at the university level. Dr. Donna Lopiano at the Univer sity of Texas at Austin and Jeanine McHaney at Texas Tech University, the two women’s athletic directors at the other two largest state sup ported schools, have the same struggle and headaches that Don has at Texas A&M. The most important ingredient need for running an athletic pro gram is money. In this category, Texas is by far the most prosperous of the three schools. Texas’ women’s athletic program is operating on a budget of $421,674 for the 1977-78 year. Included in the figure are the wages paid to coaches and athletic personnel (managers, trainers), salaries for of fice personnel, scholarship money and expenses needed for running the six women’s sports at Texas. Texas fields teams in basketball, vol leyball, swimming and diving, track and cross country, tennis and golf. In comparison, Tech also fields teams in the same six sports and has “Without guidance we're not too clear on Title IX.” relatively the same expenses that Texas does, but Tech is operating on a budget of $247,000 this year. Texas A&M stands in the middle of the three schools with their budget. With the same expenses, Texas A&M operates its women’s program on a budget of $300,000. Average in comparison to the other two schools, but Texas A&M fields teams in eight sports. The Aggies support a gymnastics team and a softball team along with their other six teams. One area that Texas is putting their money towards that Texas Tech and Texas A&M aren’t is in the form of higher coaches salaries. Texas’ highest paid coach is earning $20,240 a year coaching volleyball. In comparison, Texas A&M’s high est paid coach earns $10,000 a year coaching basketball while out at Tech, the basketball coach is the highest paid, earning $16,000 a year. Texas’ lowest paid coach earns $14,000 a year coaching swimming. So how can Texas afford to give its women’s program thousands of dol lars more than Texas A&M or Tech gives theirs? There is more money being donated to their program from the university. The biggest chunk of money Texas receives for its women’s pro gram comes from the Texas stu dents. The women received $160,000 this year from the stu dents. Texas developed a system whereby a student buys an athletic ticket (student service fee) at the beginning of the year that entitles the student to attend athletic events thoughout that year. Eight dollars of the fee went to the women’s sports. Last year the women only received four dollars out of the student serv ice fees, but that figure was doubled this year in an attempt to upgrade the women’s programs. The Texas women’s athletic pro gram also received $150,000 from the men’s athletic program this year. The remainder of the money in their budget came from a special fund in the president’s office at the university. That figure amounted to approximately $110,000 this year. Texas Tech has a little different system for allocating its funds to its women’s program. As at Texas, Tech’s largest source for funds also comes from its students. Out of the student service fees this year. the women’s program received $125,000. But that figure was a disappoint ment according to McHaney. Last year’s women’s athletics received $155,000 from the student service fees, but the athletic board cut back on the amount of money delegated to the women’s athletics. Tech’s women also received ap proximately $90,000 from adminis trative sources and $28,000 from the Red Raider Booster Club. At Texas and Texas Tech the women are a seperate athletic de partment from the men. Not so at Texas A&M where the two depart ments are unified under a single ath letic director, Emory Bellard. Instead of receiving money from a number of seperate sources, Texas A&M’s women work hand-in-hand with men’s athletics. Each coach of the eight women’s sports at Texas A&M submits a budget proposal to Athletic Director Kay Don. Don, in turn, combines “Texas is the most prosperous of the three schools.’ the budgets and gives her final fig ure to the athletic business man ager. He then combines the wo men’s budget with the men’s and submits one large budget proposal It s time to build a new coliseum Is ials,« By STEVE LEE :ounte®rhe University of Houston has Bfheinz Pavilion. The University halt if Texas has the newly-opened threeJujier Drum. Texas A&M Univer- wo, ! it\ has G. Rollie White Coliseum, a bettej|About the only thing these three theresmictures have in common is that parti ollege basketball is played in each. itrhis may seem a harsh compari- ich l! ion to make. But G. Rollie White altoititoliseum is 24 years old and of con- . The cjentional structure while the other igs an jwo coliseums are modern and the Tlush. f the 9 jujlliliaBoliseums such as Hofneinz ;rence®'l’ on an d the Super Drum are Sore the exception than the rule a t (he college facilities. II the® l ’t Texas A&M has undergone ae andf ns 'd era kle growth in 24 years. , for jiji'lso, the Aggies won the Southwest (jj Conference championship in bas- e super^tball two years ago. In light of Conferltp’ are there any plans for a major s necesififiplcx to replace Jolly Rollie? KTie answer is negative, mostly, get thiBbere has been some talk of a new . sa j(J coliseum project among University they(Mcials for the last four or five '-man iking Once won't moves. : moves ned ap ' ! A.J. Foyt will be making his 260th it varifflitart in a Championship (In- a thirdipnapolis type) car on Saturday, in collflhl 15, at Texas World Speedway extra tf|the COORS 200. He wll be trying at,” heffiwin his 60th such race. He won ivingH 59th at Mosport, Canada, last •t thatjummer and his 58th last May when ecurity Pi became the first driver ever to will eoAin the Indianapolis 500 for the laskePtorth time. During his career, he has amas- more than 40,000 United States [to Club points and six National iampionships. By comparison, no 3ther driver has amassed 30,000 pints nor won more than 33 races. l|ly one other driver, Roger McCluskey, has driven in more than ffi) races. It won’t be easy for Foyt to get his Wth win. The competition is ex- fears. Dr. Carl Landiss, head of the Department of Health and Physical Education, said there is a “long- range site study for a new coliseum of about 18,000 capacity” to be built near the new baseball park. How ever, there are no specific plans for a new coliseum now. “I would speculate that the build ing of a new coliseum is simply not a top priority to the University now,” said Wally Groff, assistant athletic director for business affairs. "When A&M won the cham pionship, talk cropped up among of ficials after students consistently filled the coliseum for each game,” Groff said. He added, however, that “this talk has since faded out.” Groff suggested that interest waned in a coliseum project because of “no apparent demand” for a new coliseum. He said attendance is the best indicator of demand. “The coliseum is adequate but not the most desirable. As long as we re not filling it for basketball, I’d have to say it’s adequate,” Groff said. “But a coliseum with a larger seating capacity would be more desirable.” The seating capacity of G. Rollie White Coliseum is about 7,200, in cluding 1,743 reserved seats. “The only game that filled the col iseum completely this last season was the Texas game,” said Spec Gammon, sports information direc tor. Groff also said that funding a new coliseum is a problem. “There is no way any university athletic department can finance a new coliseum,” said Groff. At the University of Texas, the athletic department does not own the Super Drum. The UT athletic department rents the coliseum from the university for each home bas ketball game. The situation is similar at A&M. The athletic department does not own G. Rollie White Coliseum. It is owned by the university and given to the health and physical education department for instruction pur-^ poses. Construction projects are university decisions. Groff said funding would be a problem even if the university ap proved construction of a new col iseum, because of the scope of such a project. Also involved would be the question of priorities. But if the University is willing to build a new baseball park, why wouldn’t the building of a new col iseum also have high priority? The answer given to this comes in the form of a comparison. According to Groff, the new baseball facility is a necessity. Com pared to other SWC schools, the old field was outdated and the seating inadequate. Groff holds that G. Rollie White Coliseum is actually as good or bet ter than some of the other facilities in the SWC. “At TCU and SMU, for example, the coliseums may be nicer but not bigger than G. Rollie,” Groff said. “And at Baylor, the seating capacity is adequate, but the area around the basketball court is dirt and the stands are a good distance away.” Groff added tht the capacity of the University of Arkansas Barnhill Fieldhouse is comparable to G. Rol lie White’s. It is evident that coliseum capac ity is the crucial question. But the present coliseum also is used for Town Hall events, com mencement exercises, and other ac tivities. And more than one ceremony is necessary to complete graduation, because of the limited capacity. Under these circumstances, Groff said,, “there would be justification for a new facility.” Foyt favored in Coors 200 tremely tough this year. Johncock, Sneva, Andretti, Rutherford and Ongais are all running very well, and Foyt says that Dick Simon has his operation running well this year and so does Spike Gehlhausen, and Larry Dickson, the former Spring Car Champion, is also running well. The Speedway record is 214.158 mph set by Mario Andretti in 1973 and still stands as the world record. When it comes to records, Foyt has almost all of them. He expects An dretti’s record to be broken. Pre Medical-Pre Dental Society Spring Banquet Speaker John Henry Faulk "All-American Story-Teller” Tickets Available 325 BSB thru April 6 Members — $5.00 Non members — $7.00 VOTE JIM KAST Off-Campus Undergraduate Senator r VOTE Patty Johnson for Senior Senator College Of Education CASH FOR BOOKS! 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