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In my column last week, Madge Phillips, chairman
of the UNL Women's Physical Education Dept.,
expressed some of her feelings on Title IX of the
education amendments of 1972 and some recent
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
guidelines. The purpose of these measures Is to
outlaw discrimination on the basis of sex in
school-sponsored competitive athletics.
Despite the guidelines, Phillips said she doesn't
foresee a drastic change in the status of women's
athletics at UNL Seven athletes, one from each of
the women's intercollegiate teams, have written ?n
protest of her views. The letter follows:
Dear Editor,
The article in last Friday's Daily Nebraskan does
not give a realistic picture of the concern by
student-athletes for "equal opportunity" in the area
of women's athletics.
The Guidelines of Title IX of the Education
Amendment Act of 1972 state that a school which
operates a competitive athletic program (1) shall do
so without discrimination on basis of sex and shall
provide equal opportunity to participate therein, and
(2) shall not discriminate therein on the basis of sex
in provision of equipment or supplies, scheduling of
games and practice times, travel or diem allowance,
award of athletic- scholarships, opportunity to receive
coaching and instruction, provision of locker rooms
and medical facilities and services, publicity or
otherwise.
Madge Phillips stated in the Friday article that
"The main thrust On Title IX) is for equal
opportunity, which is not necessarily equal funding."
If we are to study the guidelines set up by this law,
we would find that UNL is nowhere near
accomplishing or attempting to provide equal
opportunity. Following are parallels of the law and
the UNL program, showing just a few of the
inequities.
1. Scheduling of games so that the level of
competition provides the individual the opportunity
to achieve excellence in her own performance and
that of her team is curtailed by restrictions on the
number of games a team may play in a season by the
state governing organization, the Nebraska Women's
Intercollegiate Sports Council.
2. Provision of equipment is also discriminatory
with the most obvious example being the sharing of
one set of warm-up suits (a grand total of 17) by the
seven Intercollegiate women's teams. -
3. The travel allowance at UNL gives the student
athlete no money for food on away trips. This
problem was clearly stated by Pat Osborn, the UNL
women's softball pitcher, in the April 10 issue of the
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Daily Nebraskan, when she said, "Whenever we travel,
we have to pay everything ourselves."
4. A restriction is placed upon the teams for
traveling (a 300-mile radius of Lincoln) by the
Women's Physical Education Dept. How can a team
obtain a high level of competition within a radius of
300 miles of Lincoln if the team's nearest
competition of any quality is in Brookings, S.D., as is
ths case with the women's field hockey team?
5. Coinciding with scheduling of games is the
section which includes opportunity to receive
coaching and instruction. Contrary to the Title IX
guidelines, the Women's Intercollegiate Sports Policy
Committee places limitations on the amount of time
a student athlete can spend practicing and the
amount a coach can supervise practice to 12 hours a
week (which includes practice time, game time, travel
time, time spent during meals on an away trip and
overnight travel time).
So, if a team was to travel 600 miles round trip for
a game (which would take about 11 hours), spend
about two to three hours in actual game time, plus an
additional three hours for miscellaneous Items, the
team legally would not be allowed to practice with its
coach the following week. Sounds ridiculous, does it
not?
Displaying her negativism toward scholarships for
women, Phillips stated that ths money could be
better spent on expansion of current sports or
establishment of new teams such as fencing, archery,
track and field and golf. She stated that by doing
that, we would open up opportunities for more
women to participate. She also sad, "We could
operate three sports on $1,000 instead of spending it
on scholarships." Who has ever heard of operating
three men's teams on $1 ,000?
Is this equal opportunity? We view it as resistance
to progress in women's athletics.
In closing, we would like to emphasize our views
on scholarships as an avenue to providing equal
opportunity for women. We believe that scholarships
would allow a student to compete who now is unable
to participate because of her financial need to work.
They also would free many of the student athletes
who work and compete to spend more time with
their school work and provide the opportunity to
work toward achievement of excellence in athletics,
an important facet of the total education of an
individual.
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I 'Depth .seems to be a major concern of UNL
football Coach Tom Osborne as the Husksrs
passed the midpoint of their spring drills
Wednesday with a scrimmage.
"We're doing pretty well, but I'm not all
that excited," Osborne said. "We haven't had
any serious injuries, and we're still sorting out
players at different positions. At this point, I'd
call our progress normal."
Players with whom Osborne expresied
satisfaction so far this spring were center Rik
Borwass, split ends Dave Shamblin and Bobby
Thomas, defensive tackle Bon Pruitt and
quarterback Dave Humm. Osborne also cited
his offensive line and linebackers in general for
their p??y.
The defensive secondary, which at the start
of spring camp was an area of concern, also has
progressed according to Osborne. Wonder
Mends, Ardell Johnson and Mark Heydorff
have been solid performers thus far, and Chuck
Jones, Dave Butterfield and Jim Burrow have
turned in some good practices.
Tony Davis stems set at the fullback
position after making the shift from his I -back
spot where he started last fall.
' "Right now, we'd hesitate to move him back
to I -back' commented Oiborne. "We have
experience at I -back with Jeff Moran and John
O'Leary. Tony gives urthe experience we need
at fullback."
But Osborne said he is concerned with
finding a solid backup at fullback as well as
other positions.
One position where this is especially true is
middle guard where injuries to No. 1 Willie
Thornton and backup John Lee have
strengthened sophomore Jeff Pullen's bid for
the No. 1 spot "Pullen has been our biggest
surprise this spring. Hs mads some good plays
today," said Osborne.
Other players injured Wednesday were
wingback Ritch Bahe, Heydorff and Davis.
Osborne ran his players through what he
called a script scrimmage, where instead of
running plays with the intent of scoring, the
offense runs certain plays against certain
defensive formations.
Most of the time, the plays are staged so
their success depends on the execution of
offense. The rest of the time some are supposed
to be stopped cold, while others are set so the
offense should make a gain.
This provides more uniformity in the
workout so the coaches can get a look at how
each player performs in each situation and can
pinpoint individual problems.
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friday, april 19, 1974