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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1980
Page 9
NCAA, AIAW in dogfight
AD’s concerned about roles
By KATHLEEN McELROY
Sports Staff
Texas A&M men’s and women’s
athletic departments work together
with relatively few problems.
But their governing institutions
don’t.
The NCAA, which governs Texas
A&M men’s athletics, at its conven
tion two weeks ago voted to sponsor
five women’s championships already
sponsored by the Association of In
tercollegiate Athletics for Women
(AIAW), which governs Texas
A&M’s women’s sports.
The NCAA’s action has left some
AIAW members upset and Athletic
Director Marvin Tate and women’s
athletic director Kay Don con
cerned.
“I think we need to see where
were headed in women’s sports,’’
Tate said Wednesday.
It’s obvious where the NCAA is
headed. At the convention in New
Orleans delegates from Division II
and III schools — usually smaller
institutions — voted to let the NCAA
sponsor its women’s championships
in basketball, volleyball, tennis,
swimming and field hockey (the only
sport in the group for which Texas
A&M doesn’t field a team).
Division I schools — larger uni
versities like Texas A&M and the
other Southwest Conference schools
— tried to override the vote but
were outnumbered by the smaller
schools. However the champion
ships, which begin during the 1981-
82 school year, will only affect the
Division II and III schools.
Tate said A&M voetd against the
change.
Don attended the AIAW conven
tion in Washington (held coincident-
ly at the same time as the NCAA’s)
and said many women felt betrayed
by the NCAA’s move.
“Some people were extremely
angry. Some felt they had just been
totally defeated,” she said.
The AIAW also sent to the NCAA
a telegram threatening legal action
against it if the delegates took any
action that might damage the AIAW.
The telegram, sent two days before
the NCAA voted, was ignored by the
Division II and III schools. Some
AIAW members are still considering
fusing some type of action.
But why are the women so against
the NCAA participating in women’s
Isports?
“The women feel they know how
to conduct championships for
• were women,” Don said. “We feel we
know the women better. ”
“Women will not have any voice
—women will lose out totally with a
men’s structure trying to run
women’s championships,” Don said.
She also said her complaint with
the NCAA wasn’t the action itself.
“I’m against the way it’s been
handled without first setting up gov
ernments,” she said.
She is not, however, against a
merger that gives women a say.
I’m not opposed to the men and
women getting together with equal
voice,” she said.
“I think it can be done,” she said.
But I think they (both the NCAA
and the AIAW) are going to have to
give a little.”
But right now neither organization
is giving an inch. As it stands now,
both the NCAA and the AIAW will
|iold championships in those five
ports with schools having to decide
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which tournament to enter. If this is,
indeed, the case the NCAA will have
a huge advantage.
The NCAA is the dominant asso
ciation in men’s collegiate sports. It
offers three things every school
wants — prestige, money and media
exposure. The money given to some
Division I schools participating in
post-season football bowl games ex
ceeds the athletic budgets of many
schools.
However the AIAW is trying to
establish its reputation. Developed
at a time when the NCAA was ignor
ing women’s athletics, the AIAW
now sponsors 37 championships in
three different divisions based on the
amount of scholarships given to
female athletes.
Money is just now going to AIAW
schools. For the first time since its
establishment in 1971, the women’s
association was able to reimburse
some of its schools participating in
post-season championships.
“We have made great strides in
getting TV contracts,” Don said.
Television is where the NCAA has
made its money, gaining lucrative
contracts for football and basketball.
Don still hopes the differences can
be worked out.
“I’m hoping that the men and the
women can learn to listen to each
other and respect each other,” she
said, “and come up with the best
structure for men and women in
athletics.”
The current structure of Texas
A&M’s athletic department won’t be
affected by the NCAA’s decision
since Texas A&M is a Division I
school. However if the NCAA ever
takes over for the AIAW, there
would be changes, some of which
would affect the coaches.
“There’s a big difference in the
rules that the coaches have to abide
by,” Cherri Rapp, women’s head
basketball coach, said. “It would cost
a lot more to recruit. ”
But actually, Rapp, like most
coaches, says she just wants to have a
good program for the school and for
the female athletes.
How do the athletes feel about
NCAA vs. AIAW?
Most of them weren’t aware of any
conflicts, but basketball player Peg
gy Pope said she didn’t think the
NCAA would be that bad for
women’s sports.
“I think women’s sports will be
bigger,” she said. “I think there will
be more publicity in the NCAA.”
Don said, she still has one con
cern:
“A lot of people fear the male
athlete has been lost.” she said. “I
hope the athlete will not be lost in
the shuffle.”
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