rednesday, novernber 12, 1975
daily nebraskan
Title IX
vague, but schools comply
By Theresa Forsman
Colleges have until June 24, 1979 to comply
with Title IX, and although most Big 8 schools
aren't sure what to make of the law, they seem to
be doing their best to comply with it.
Marianne Washington, women's athletic director
at the University of Kansas (KU), said KU will take
an in-depth look at all its athletic programs to
determine what changes are needed.
"There cannot be continued discrepancy in
athletic programs," she said. Areas with descrep
ancies between men's and women's sports pro
grams include financing and the use of equipment
.and building, Washington said.
In addition to state funds, KU allocated
$132,000 this year for women's athletics, she said,
compared with more than $2 million budgeted for
men's athletics. In 1973, KU's women's athletics
programs received $9,300.
The school is going to have to find additional
fees somehow, Washington said, since the student
fees, which now partially support the women's
programs, "could be here today and gone to
morrow." School concerned
The school has been sensitive to her concerns,
she said, and added she has tried not be to over
whelming in her demands. Washington said she
thinks the cooperative attitude of KU's adminis
tration may be due partially to KU's "very compet
itive women's team," which are "some of the most
well-rounded in the country."
Judy Akers, women's athletics director at
Kansas State University (KSU), said it is wrong to
judge progress in terms of budget growth over the
past few years. Although budgets have been in
creased for most women's athletic programs, she
said they still receive inadequate funding.
"I'm looking at what we need and at what we
have-which is nothing," Akers said.
Akers suggested increasing funds in addition to
shifting them around. Men's programs should not
suffer in order to finance women's programs, she
said. More universities will have to go out and raise
money, Akers predicted.
UNL's women's athletic department is trying to
generate its own funds for their programs, accord
ing to Jay Davis, women's sports information
director.
Cont. on page 8
Coaches examine Title IX:
New law difficult to decipher
Though the Health, Education and Welfare
Dept.'s (HEW) Title IX law is designed to end sex
discrimination in school athletics programs, it is
doubtful any clear consensus on the law's mean
ing will be reached by the schools expected to
comply with it.
Jay Davis, UNL's sports information director,
said Title IX stipulates equal opportunity for men
and women.
Marianne Washington, Kansas University's
womens athletic director, said she isn't sure Title
IX means equal. "Everyone's trying to determine
what the law is all about," she added.
"As Title IX is written," Davis said, "I doubt if
anybody can understand it." Some lawyers can't
even interpret the law, she said.
Women's athletic directors at Iowa State (ISU)
and Oklahoma State (OSU) universities are turn
ing to their affirmative action programs for inter
pretation of the law, according to Ruth Lauver of
.ISU and Janice Thompson at OSU.
Some women's athletic directors aren't even
hazarding a guess about Title IX's meaning.
Marilyn Markell of Missouri University said she
doesn't know how the school finally will interpret
the law, so right now she "doesn't know what to
make of it."
"Since there is no national interpretation," said
Judy Akers, head of women's athletics at KSU,
"I can't tell you how we'll interpret the law."
Most Big 8 women's athletic directors agreed
that the courts will have to provide meaning for
Title IX. ,
Lauver compared the law to recent civil rights
legislation. "What it says on the books and how
it's enforced are two different things," she said,
adding that "we'll get what we need if they rule
in favor of the girls."
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