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Look around the advertising world and it’s very obvious the same does not hold true for men. Mike Tyson, Larry Byrd and Evan- der Holyfield are living proof. One could argue that these men are outstanding in their fields and their name recognition alone can sell a product. It could also be ar gued that women athletes just don’t have the same name recogni tion because fewer people watch women’s sports. Well, I would love to hear from anyone that has never heard the name Martina Navratilova. Navratilova has 55 Grand Slam wins including a record nine Wim bledon Championships. And on Saturday Navratilova was the old est female ever to play in the finals at Wimbledon. Talk about being outstanding in your field. Talk about notoriety. And yet, Navratilova has never been offered a product endorsement outside of tennis equipment. Women athletes seen in con sumer product advertising are al ways cute and bubbly. Navratilova is not cute and bubbly. They also display the appropriate amount of femininity. Navratilova is not fem inine. In fact, she’s admittedly gay. Not that that could possibly have anything to do with overlooking this outstanding female athlete for promotional campaigns. Everyone knows how widely accepted a gay lifestyle is. Chris Evert, Mary Lou Retton and Nancy Kerrigan cannot hold a candle to Navratilova’s athletic prowess or her legacy, but they all fijl the necessary requirements to sell a product. And they have be come the darlings of the female athlete endorsement world because of it. Today’s advertising seems to in dicate that the average man is threatened by a talented woman athlete who isn’t attractive enough to fantasize about. This is evidenced in everything from beer to shoe commercials por traying modelesque women in ath letic roles or dressed in skimpy uni forms. Beauty sells where women are concerned. Please see Parten/Page 4 Lady Aggies’ coach arrives « Harvey meets the press as A&M's new head coach By Mark Smith The Battalion The past couple of days have held a number of firsts for Candi Harvey. Saturday was the first time she as sumed the head coaching position of Texas A&M University. She met the players she will coach next season for the first time on Monday and Tuesday she held her first press conference as the Lady Aggies’ coach in the Koldus building. “I’m incredibly excited to be here,” Harvey said. “This fulfills all my hopes and dreams of having the opportunity to come back to Texas.” Harvey has spent most of her coach ing career in Texas. For four years she was head coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler. She then served as an assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin University for six years. She said having that experience in the state helped her get the job. “I think having Texas ties was impor tant,” she said. Harvey’s last coaching job was the head coach of the Tulane Green Wave. She served as coach for four years, turn ing around the Tulane program. As the Tulane coach she had a 46-68 record. Although it is not a winning record, Harvey said she had to build the Tulane program from the ground up. “One of my comments when I got to Tulane was that the cupboard wasn’t bare, it wasn’t even built yet,” she said. ,w \ % - ■ ■ Mark Smith/THE Battalion A&M’s new head women’s basketball coach Candi Harvey meets the press for the first time Tuesday in the athletic department conference room. “But, in my last two years we put to gether back-to-back winning seasons.” Athletic Director Wally Groff said he was not concerned with Harvey’s num bers at Tulane. “She [Harvey] has proved she can take a program to the next level,” Groff said. Leaving Tulane was hard, Harvey said, but she felt the job at A&M repre sented her future. “No matter how painful it was to leave, I never had a doubt that this is where I’m supposed to be,” she said. “A team is like a family. I left my family there to join another one.” Harvey said she doesn’t subscribe to any particular style of basketball, but lets the ability of the players determine what type of game she plays. Please see Harvey/Page 4 Buster” Douglas hospitalized with diabetic coma COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For mer heavyweight champion James “Buster” Douglas was reportedly hospitalized Tuesday in a diabetic coma. WBNS-TV, quoting a relative it did not identify, said Douglas, 34, was in poor condition Tuesday after noon at Grant Medical Center. The hospital refused comment and hosiptal spokeswoman Karen Waldbillig said the family asked that no information be released. Other relatives told the station Douglas was taken to the hospital Monday and had slipped in and out of a coma since then. They said Tuesday afternoon that his condi tion was improving. It was not known whether Dou glas previously had been diagnosed as a diabetic or which form of the disease he might have. In some cas es, if diabetes goes untreated, the victim may go into a diabetic coma, which can lead to death. Douglas’ father, Bill Douglas, could not be reached for comment. A man who answered the phone at Bill Douglas’ home Tuesday morn ing identified himself as a friend of the family and said he knew nothing of Douglas’ condition. He would not confirm that Douglas was in the hospital. There was no answer at the home Tuesday afternoon. Messages seeking comment from the fighter’s business manager, Lawrence Nallie, were not returned. Douglas, a native of Columbus, was the heavyweight champion for only eight months. A&M athletics rank No. 24 in Sears Cup Cups' inaugural year sees A&M, Texas as only Southwest Conference schools 1993-94 Sears Directors' Cup Final Standings By Brian Coats The Battalion Chalk up another national top 25 finish for Texas A&M. The overall athletic department finished 24th in the final standings of the inaugural National Association of Collegiate Di rectors of Athletics (NACDA) 1993-94 Sears Directors’ Cup. The Cup ranks overall athletic de partments based on the finishes of ten men’s sports and ten women’s sports, plus two wild card sports. A&M scored 454.5 points, one-half- of-a-point ahead of Florida State. North Carolina won the cup with 806.5 total points. A&M’s football team, which fin ished ninth in the nation, collected 55 points, the most of any sport. Wom en’s basketball, softball and men’s ten nis each scored 52.5 points. Women’s volleyball, men’s indoor track and outdoor track and field, men’s golf and the men’s and women’s swim teams also contributed points. All of these sports placed on the na tional level. A&M Athletic Director Wally Groff said the Cup is a good indicator of the overall strength.of.the.A.&M,athletic, department, particularly the women’s programs. “We were 24 because of the success of the women,” he said. Lynn Hickey, the senior associate athletic director, appreciated Groff’s belief. “That was nice of him to say,” she said. “We were really fortunate that all our women’s teams stepped up a notch this year.” The Pac-10 led the nation with six schools ranked. A&M and the Univer sity of Texas, which finished seventh, were the only Southwest Conference schools represented. Four future Big School Points School Points North Carolina 806.5 Minnesota 553.0 Stanford 786.5 Alabama 552.5 UCLA 779.5 Clemson 546.5 Florida 768.0 California 535.5 Penn St. 756.0 Nebraska 524.5 Arizona 710.0 Virginia 513.0 T^'ka? 697.5 Oklahoma 499.0 Southern Cal 677.0 Georgia 495.5 Michigan 656.0 Brigham Young 488.0 Arizona St. 603.0 Ohio St. 483.5 Notre Dame 595.0 Texas A&M 454.5 Wisconsin 565.0 Florida St. 454.0 Tennessee 560.0 12 schools made the list-A&M, Texas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Groff said A&M coaches and stu dent-athletes should feel especially proud because A&M has fewer inter collegiate sports than some of the oth er schools on the list. “The Cup takes into account 22 sports” he said. “Some schools had all 22, and we only had 19. It’s a credit to the hard work of our coaches and stu dent-athletes.” SUMMER ’94 Register Now 845-1631 DANCE Beginning Country & Western Dance Mon. July 11, 18, 25, Aug 1 6-7:15pm $20/student $2 5/nonstudent Ballroom Dance Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26 6-7:30pm $20/student $25/nonstudent Jitterbug Wed. July 6, 11(7:30), 27, Aug 3 6-7:15pm $20/student $25/nonstudent Voice Training Mon. July 18, 25, Aug 1 6-8:30pm $30/student $35/nonstudent AEROBICS M/W, thru Aug 3 5:30-6:30pm $30/student $35/nonstudent M/W, thru Aug 3 6:45-7:45pm $30/student $35/nonstudent T/Th, thru Aug 4 5:30-6:30pm $30/student $35/nonstudent SELF HELP Personal, Family & Home Protection Thurs. July 14, 21 6- 8pm $ 10/student $ 15/nonstudent Self Defense Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26 6:45- 8:45pm $30/student $35/nonstudent First Aid M/W, July 11,13, 18, 20 7- 9pm $ 18/student $23/nonstudent CPR M/W, July 25, 27 6- 10pm $ 18/student $23/nonstudent COMPUTERS Intro to Macintosh Mon. July 11 7- 9pm $20/student $35/nonstudent Pagemaker 5.0 T/Th, July 12,14,19,21,26,28 7-9pm $3 5/student $40/nonstudent PLUS ARTS/CRAFTS Painting II Thurs. July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug 4 6-9pm $35/student $40/nonstudent Drawing II Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 6-8pm $35/student $40/nonstudent Watercolor Wed. July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug 3 6-9pm $35/student $40/nonstudent Matting & Framing Thurs. July 14, 21, 28 6:30-8:30pm $30/student $35/nonstudent Stained Glass Wed. July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug 3 6-9pm $3 5/student $40/nonstudent Leaded Glass Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 6-9pm $30/student $35/nonstudent WORKSHOPS MSC Basement Level POTTERY Beginning Wheel M/W, July 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 5:30-7:30pm M/W, July 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 7:45-9:45pm T/Th. July 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21 5:30-7:30pm $35/student $40/nonstudent OUTDOORS Intro To Falconry Thurs. July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug 4 6-7pm $20/student $25/nonstudent Fly Tying Tues. July 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 6:30-9pm $30/student $35/nonstudent PHOTOS Photography Mon. July 11, 18, 25, Aug 1 6- 9pm $30/student $35/nonstudent Video Camera Meth ods and Techniques Thurs. July 7, 14, 21, 28 7- 9pm $20/student $25/nonstudent VARIETY Wines of America Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26 7-8:30pm $30/student $35/nonstudent Bike Maintenance Tues. July 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 7:30-9:30pm $20/student $2 5/nonstudent Billiards Sat. July 9, 16, 23, 30 2-4pm $30/student $35/nonstudent Basics of Investing Tues. July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 7:30-9pm $20/student $25/nonstudent Cake Decorating Mon. July 11, 18, 25, Aug 2 6-9pm $20/student $25/nonstudent WOODWORKS Woodworking I Tues. July 12, 19, 26, Aug 2 6-8pm $40/student $45/nonstudent Woodworking II Wed. July 13, 20, 27, Aug 3 6-8pm $40/student $45/nonstudent Page 3 us' >f Aunt the e her ave -orical ters ox- ie and yor of to mu ill’s smi- e of