Page 14 THE BATTALION THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1979 Butler on athletic directors’ bad side United Press International HOUSTON — Twiss Butler is the nemesis of almost every male athle tic director whose college fields a major football program in the United States. She has heard their arguments that football makes the money to pay the bills for “lesser” sports and that equal spending for women athletes would bankrupt athletic budgets and force a restructuring of football prog rams. Those arguments, she says, are myths which can be debunked by financial statistics from the NCAA but usually aren’t because athletic administrators don’t call attention to ^W/ TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY fry W >Am H-l? Il Move m be k* g’.ooeri RuJlkr Tickets J MSC Box Office Skyrocketing Go Id Prices i Won't keep you from giving that extra special gift this Christmas. Layaway that gift at Cowart's now and just a 20% deposit will hold it for you until Christmas. mh A North gate 415 University Drive 846-5816 YOUR JEWELRY STORE ?€Kma cwmesc RcStaurakt STUDEMT SPECIAL, SUNDAY EVENING BUFEET 3.55 Monday through Saturday Special Combination Dinner 3.50 Open Daily 11:30 a.in. to 2 p.m. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 1313 S. College Ave. Bryan 822-7661 Non winning PRINT ENTRIES in the MSC Camera Committee's FALL PHOTO CONTEST ~^f§> may be picked up on the MAIN FLOOR of the MSC from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. THURSDAY, NOV. 15 and FRIDAY, NOV. 16 Winning prints will be on display in the MSC GALLERY from NOV. 13 to DEC. 3. (Winning print entries may be picked up the week following DEC. 3). % them and the male-dominated press is too lazy or too close to the athletic programs to use them. A represenative of the League of Women Voters on the Bay Area Title IX Coalition, the League City, Texas resident wants to provide an alterna tive view about high school and col lege football, which she said “is something that is so overwhelmingly accepted as masculine that every body is allowed to be completely babyish about it.” “The NCAA asserted that at many schools the profits from football pay for the rest of the sports programs, including women s sports,” Butler said. “But by the NCAA’s own fi gures, 81 percent of the athletic de partments are not making money. Does that indicate football supports the other sports?” The heart of the controversy is Ti tle IX, the federal plan for equalizing athletic expenditures without regard to sex. Butler says athletic directors of major college football programs have ignored implementation of federal guidelines to equalize spending for men and women athletes. “Women in college sports are re ceiving more money (since the fed eral government authorized the Ti tle IX equal spending guidelines) but so have the big football programs, she said. “There has been an in crease in spending all across the board.” Colleges without major football programs have easily adjusted to bring their spending in line with Ti tle IX, she said. She was skeptical about the NCAA’s 19 percent figure for athle tic departments making money be cause of football. “It makes you wonder whether at the apparently successful schools that there isn’t some really creative bookkeeping. The kind of things that turn up in their comments show some disregard for being meticu lous,’ she said. She said common misconceptions held by Title IX critics were that equal spending guidelines would force colleges to start women’s foot ball teams or force colleges to sup port a woman swimmer with the same financial considerations that it does a male football player. “What we might get for a female swimmer is a better all-around com petitive situation and program,” Butler said. “We might get the coach put on full time instead of half time. ” Title IX became law in 1972 and the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare was charged with enforcing it. “In July, 1978, the universities were supposed to be in compliance. But the HEW did not have guide lines that they were willing to go to the wall for,” she said, explaining that that pleased the athletic dire ctors and left the HEW with a repu tation of “gutlessness. ’ The 1978 policy interpretation “was a way to try to nail down some of the uncertainties so that HEW could perhaps get up its courage and go after some of these complaints,” she said. The U.S. Civil Rights Commis- PRESCRIPTION Rx STEREO 3602 OLD COLLEGE ROAD (Across from the Chicken Oil Co. & Next to Tri-State Sporting Goods) 846-1393 We carry the Finest in Automotive Stereo. If we don’t have what you’re looking for, we can usually get it. JENSEN fwe Also Carry :1 ®SANYO Car Stereo Receivers and Series II Speakers Full Line of AM/FM/Cassette • Maxell & TDK Blank Tapes • Pre-Recorded Tapes Decks, 8-Tracks and Speakers Telephones (GTE) d^Clanon Car Stereos and Equalizers Albums — 80c over our cost ALWAYS!! Car Speakers . We Special Order Tapes & Albums at I No Extra Cost to You "We have In-Dash Auto Stereo to tit Every Vehicle on the Road" AGGIE MUMS .