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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
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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.
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