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Texas A&M Battalion% ? April 21,1|| T Battalion April 21, 1982 Page 15 ports :i- AIAW near close of fruitful 11-year existence employment^ / However, Yates said io student obli; all-time p employer and nof®. bligation to offer i|J| ors note: Th,s ,s the r,rst of till-time employment : tw,, P‘ irt senes recapping the The co-op prop,'- vents ^ ave ^ to f ^ e tiown- :nts disadvantages.!: al1 (>l , lhe AM IT, the organiza- nds a student’s grac^5,, , l;l | ^ ^ has set ne semester, Yates W arc/s college women’s in interfere withtlietl , ,cs ‘ , w Irst se g m ent I a student's involmetB 5 l >e P‘ iSl 7 eai s c ^ e ' |ies mpratingrelationship between jpMMW' and the NCAA. About 1,300 Texas': ents participate in t logram. I by Frank L. Christlieb Students who compbffij p program r e quirett^| ien the\ssociation for Athletics In fer ■cetye a Cooperative.' erc() | legiate ertificate when the)t® nen began its inaugural ses- ion during 1971-72, more than 80 schools took what promised obe a revolutionary step in the Pf C tistory of college women’s athle- But after swelling to an excess f 1,000 member schools, the \ r 'A P HAW now finds itself on the ' kJO irink of non-existence. In fact, Borganization’s life processes , re so close to extinction that it’s e about the same M k t() detect even a faint n the other ban arnon g t i ie jqq AIAW id, executives in marl Jnber schools, itinguished from imi® eat p 1 w j|| t | le AIAW irch, enjoy a goodcr une 39 After that date, all eping their jobs fg X as A&M University women’s t tough and so do thletic teams which have com- irkers. Sales people, w ithin the AIAW will he- inagers, comptrollt ,j n p art i c ip at i n g j n t be National nd or investment niHegiate Athletic Association, d their workers are Muring the past year, the all ured position. xierful NCAA has used its Consequently, he |^ er - its politics and the AIAW eople who are l Kay Don tanging jobs for anyifB y to pick a depiwM?ath will strike the intributes ^M A w june 30. After Upt date, all Texas University Camden also said :t:-U ^ , , it some industries attB^-Ai ring very much from y/Oluen’s athletic teams 11 1 f (ession. AndihB ^ have competed the AIAW will participating m tnpanies involved in stries as petroleum within ?nt banking, foodsanB • es, tobacco, aerospi^o neral communicatio: the NCAA. od choices for placet!: || He also said at Iff K siness areas — mamA exert more control over nsulting, healthcare, women’s athletics. The most software, high KWhimoilty recurring headline inufacturing.bankim^otting newspapers over the the emical and generalelast few months has been “War r — are likely to bof the Worlds: AIAW vs. jwth rates in thenexifaCAA.” |frhe AIAW, then headed by However, SRI IntemBnna Lopiano of the Universi- Palo Alto, Calif., tktly of Texas, filed a anti-trust suit tnford Research Hinst the NCAA in Septem- f s people w'on’t be ber In a 38-page complaint filed ’.S. District Court in the Dis- t of Columbia, the 10-year- AIAW accused the NCAA of to stunt the steady growth allege women’s sports. "he lawsuit claimed that the AA “has expressed its anta- ism to the interest of iks so much in theft 1 do their ne via a home compm eo display tube. This 1 the likelyhoodoil >wth rates in the baftj rket. SRI also said the hoi er and video screen ce many retail sales d it predicts voice-of tatingmachinesv mate electronic ly| 1 word processing the demand for hers will decline. SRI said it prek technology industry t implications fori iculture and other ustries will be the wingjob market wit rs, followed by the eni nt business women’s intercollegiate athletics through opposition to inclusion of intercollegiate athletic prog rams in the coverage of Title IX.” The Title IX legislation, although a part of the Education Amendments of 1972, did not take effect until July 1975. The federal law states that: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” The AIAW suit stated that the results of the NCAA’s increased control over women’s athletics would be “to diminish program opportunities for women in athletics; to diminish leadership opportunities for women in athletics, and to eliminate the separate identity and govern ance of the women’s intercolle giate athletics market now ex pressed through AIAW.” Kay Don, Texas A&M assis tant athletic director for women and Region IV representative of the AIAW, says the feud be tween the two factions has reached its peak and essentially all that’s left are the final stages of the AIAW’s dissolution. In an interview Tuesday, Don de scribed each part of the losing battle the women’s organization has fought since the NCAA be gan its attempt to swing AIAW members toward its older, more solidified structure. For the AIAW, the beginning of the end took place at the 1981 NCAA convention. “At the NCAA convention last year, it was voted by the assembly to initiate women’s championships at the Division I >ooooooooo< CAMPUS 846-6512 iow showing: ON 2 NIS ENT Prizes Provid* Spectate Welcome ussmg. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE O 1982 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS. INC SPECIAL Thurs. Night: All Tickets $1.50 >ooooo< APPLICATIONS FOR NAVAL FLIGHT TRAINING NOW BEING ACCEPTED Immediate openings for training in the world’s most prestigious flight school. No experience required. Juniors, seniors, college grads. All majors considered. Must be in good health and a U.S. citizen. Pilot appli cants up to age 28 1 /2, must have 20/20 vision. 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Contact: Navy Flight Programs (A120) 1121 Walker St. Houston, TX 77002 (713) 226-2445 (collect if necessary) FLY NAVY, THE BEST ALWAYS HAVE. level,” Don said. “The year be fore, they had already initiated championships for Division II and Division III to become effective, so all they had left was to try to get Division I approved. “Also, it was approved that (the NCAA) adopt a governance structure to include women into its committees and council in va rious areas of control.” Don said, however, that AIAW members didn’t take uni fied stand on this action. “I don’t know if it’d be a 50- 50, but there was pretty much a split within the women’s organi zation as to whether this (initiat ing the women’s champion ships) was really the best move for women’s athletics,” Don said. “Some people felt that it was, that it would possibly mean more money coming into the programs. Some felt that it would give more visibility to the women’s athletic programs be cause of the NCAA’s power within the television ranks as well as other media. “On the other side, there were a number of women who felt that it was not good ... that a number of women’s positions would be removed or done away with at the university levels ... (and) that within the NCAA structure itself, they were not allowing for equal representa tion on the committees. They were just allowing for percen tages of women coming onto the committees, and this would stifle the growth of women in the area of athletics to ever be able to de velop their administrative skills. “Also, there was a feeling that women’s athletics within the NCAA would take the same place as what we have found, in past years, other men’s sports have taken,” Don said, “because it has appeared over the years that NCAA’s rules and legisla tion have been made for football and basketball. “For example, scholarships. You have a fewer number of scholarships allowed in various sports, because they view some of the men’s sports in a little bit different light than football and basketball. Those are the money-producers, the money makers in most cases, whereas tennis, swimming, golf and track ‘After the AIAW did an extensive study as to what type of effect (NCAA plans) would have on the AIAW, (its members) realized that in essence, the NCAA was running them out of business.” — Kay Don, Texas A&M assis tant athletic director for women. and field are not money-makers. So they seem to be pushed over here and don’t get quite as much money. “A lot of women feel that the same thing is going to happen to the women's programs, because they are not money-makers at this point in time,” Don said. Don said many AIAW mem bers also felt that some NCAA rules might harm the state of in tercollegiate women’s athletics, established. The women’s prog rams are still in a growth stage, and if that growth is stifled right now, then you don’t know what might happen.” With most of the money in the AIAW coming from member ship dues, Don said, it began to appear that a move by major schools into the NCAA would dearly cost the women’s organi zation. “Division I schools pay the lar ger membership dues,” she said. “If (the AIAW) lost a large num ber of Division I schools, this would take about 50 percent of its money away. It was like a domino effect, actually. What was happening is that those companies who had been back ing AIAW were starting to say ‘Well, if the better teams in the AIAW are going to swingover to the NCAA, then your cham pionships might not be the same quality, so we’re going to start pulling our support away from this.’” Don said that the AIAW soon began to wise up to the NCAA's plan to monopolize college women’s athletics. “After the AIAW did an ex tensive study as to what type of effect it would have on the AIAW, (its members) realized that in essence, the NCAA was running them out of business ... because they were pulling away the membership and they w'ere taking away some of the other types of income,” she said. Thursday: What lies ahead? COUPON m The Best Pizza In Town! Honest. INTRODUCES OUR BUY ONE, GET ONE JUST LIKE IT AT V2 PRICE PIZZA SPECIAL! AT THE PIZZA MAT ONLY Please Present Coupon 846-3412 COUPON WE KNOW YOU ARE FEELING THE PINCH THESE DAYS, BUT TAKE A BREAK AND WORSHIP WITH US THIS WEEK. 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