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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1979)
From Dickens to the Ducks By STEVE JETT Of the Emerald Julie Carson glanced at the Oregon Duck poster hanging on a wall in her athletic department office "I'm used to having Charles Dickens on the wall." jokes the former Engish teacher who is now Oregon's deputy athletic director, a position believed to be the highest attained by a woman at a Division 1 school Before being named to the office last July. Carson was an assistant English professor and a faculty representative for women's intercollegiate sports at the University of Minnesota But she felt the women’s movement in sports was ac celerating and she wanted to be part of it She got her chance when she was named to the Oregon post This English business I’ve had enough of." she says "At Minnesota. I didn t have enough authority (in women's athletics) I was faculty rep and I was helpful But I couldn't make any decisions" At Oregon. I really feel I can be part of the movement, which being a classroom teacher wasn t giving me." she says " There would have been no reason to come here unless I had something I wanted to do I didn't need the job. 1 wanted it " Carson s position is newly es tablished at Oregon. As deputy director she heads the women’s athletic program and is second to Athletic Director John Caine in overall department authority Among Carson's goals in Eugene is adding women's golf and soccer programs and building both men's and women s tennis programs "Tennis has been a stepchild too long,'' she says "And I want to change that" She also hopes to form a women's hall of fame "I'm try ing to getf very good pictures of women who became distin guished athletes and who at one time went to U of O.," she says. "Some vintage photos would be good ” In addition to her teaching experience. Carson has an ex tensive backround in sports Before she went to Minnesota in 1972, she coached high school and club swimming for five years and coached women's basketball at Siena Heights College in Michigan She also held a position in the Women's Athletic Association at the University of Michigan However, Carson admits she approached the Oregon posi tion with "eyes wide open." "f think l had to because I was leaving a lot in Minnesota, she says I was leaving job security, a professional reputation There had to be a reAi strong motiva tion to leve all that." So far, she hasn't encoun tered any major problems "I think if we had the budget of a USC or a UCLA, there would be no stumbling blocks at all." says Carson "But I haven't found a major stumbling block yet I don't think many women athletic directors enjoy the kind of atmosphere that I have here. I don't find a hostile attitudes against women s athletics in this community It's a good place to be building ,-emu Food Service SKYLIGHT M-F make your own • SALAD BAR vegetarian SANDWICHES hot & hearty * SOUPS cream cheese • BAGELS up the But Carson quickly adds that 1 the Oregon facilities "are probably the poorest I’ve seen at a major institution for women But it's not like the men are living in suites and we are living in a ghetto. Poor facilities are not uncommon (to both men's and women's programs at Oregon) and we are trying to improve them here But she realizes the progress of women's athletics, at Oregon and in general, has depended heavily on the enforcement of Title IX "That was the impetus, I think, for the development of women’s athletics,” she says “At first, there may have been a lot of hostile, negative feelings, but I think we are working through that ” Which is one of the reason why Carson says "I wouldn’t be anywhere else I came here with some dreams tucked in my pocket and I intend to get them. If you have an idea and a dream and you keep building it, I don't think you can get burned out ” A certain former English teacher hasn't BOOGIE BLUES W cm (>1*0, Funk, Ft*h & I t,cf tjrKjn,r HALLOWEEN SALE 50% reduction on entire stock from Oct. 27th to 31st Mhe&c Department photo "I came here with some dreams tucked in my pocket,” says Julie Carson ‘And I intend to get them.” Lazar s Bazar is having a clothing CLEARANCE SALE Our entire stock of imported 100% cotton shirts, skirts, and tops has been drastically reduced to as low as S3.99 and up Lazar’s Bazar 1036 Willamette Street 687-0139 687-9766 FOUR ACTORS from the Royal Shakespeare Company University of Oregon Events Wednesday, Oct. 31 - 3:30 p.m. - Robinson Theatre Paul Shelley: An Actor’s Approach to Shakespeare - $2.00 Thursday, Nov. 1 - 4:30 - Pocket Playhouse, Villard Hall, U of O Meet the actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company - FREE Friday, Nov. 2 - 8 p.m. - Beall Concert Hall Shakespeare Lady: Fanny Kemble, Passionate Victorian - $4.50 Saturday, Nov. 3-8 p.m. - Beall Concert Hall LOVE, TIME AND THE FLESH, BUT WHO’S AFRAID OF THE SONNETS? JlM> tickets t«»r this peril icmancc bait* beendrvtNimcd from $4.50 to $.3.(111 ti»c students and xmnirs through a purchase by the C itv hugene Parks and Recreation Dejurtmcnt uith R«»mi tax funds Tickets available at the EMU Main Desk, U of O Bookstore, literary Lion (84 E. Broadway), Market Place Bookstore (Fifth Street Public Market), and Bremen Town Music & Records, (Valley Riser Center.) _ Itx wenur .a rt* actors „ ,Mn ,*•„ «lu.at.onal programdrvefcipetl bx ACTORS IN RFSIDKNCK, l Wxm <* C* limu». Santa Barbara, an! is sporwured h\ the Cm «it' FatRcnc Room Tax. the I'msrrsm of Oregon Knglr* Department, the Festival at Arts Committee. the KMl Cultural Forum, the VvemNi and lectures Committee, Ft MA and Ialne Community College
