dail\remerald
Vol. 82, No. 79
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Thursday, January 15, 1981
NCAA votes to include women's athletics
Move for efficiency or power play?
By TAMARA SWENSON
Ol the Emerald
After a long and heated debate Tuesday, the
National Collegiate Athletic Association voted to
include women’s athletics in its governing
structure and sponsor women’s championships.
The assimilation is strongly opposed by the
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women, the governing body for women’s
athletics, which considers the action an intrusion
by the NCAA.
“I’ve never seen such a power play, such a
blitzkrieg, as I’ve seen here today,” Arkansas
Athletic Director Frank Broyles told the
Associated Press, slamming the NCAA’s
contention that each school would have a choice
to go with the NCAA or AIAW championships. “I
wish I’d had such a power play when I was
coaching football.”
At the University and at Oregon State
University reaction to the NCAA assimilation
varied from approval to dissatisfaction. The two
universities belong to both organizations.
“It certainly puts us at a crossroads, both
philosophically and really,” says Julie Carson,
the University’s deputy athletic director. "We ll
have to sit down and decide what we want to
do.”
“It’s a move I have mixed feelings about,”
said Aki Hill, OSU’s women’s basketball coach,
“because I’m sure if combined, they’d push
women's basketball harder than ever, which I’d
like to see. But then more would be expected
from us in the money columns.”
AIAW Pres. Donnal Lopina, from the
University of Texas, tried to disregard the
setback, according to Associated Press reports.
“The suggestion that women will have a choice
as to whether they want to be with the AIAW or
the NCAA is ridiculous,” she said. “There will be
no choice, I’m afraid.”
Carson says the University will wait and see
which organization schools choose. “If the big
schools opt for the NCAA rules instead of AIAW
rules, Oregon will go along with them,” she said.
"We’ll have to to remain competitive.”
The dispute between the NCAA and the
AIAW has centered on recruiting. The AIAW
doesn’t allow off-campus recruiting, while the
NCAA does.
Schools have until 1985 to choose between
organizations. Until then, they will work under a
two-rules period, Carson says.
"Schools that work under the AlAW’s rules
will be at a distinct disadvantage to schools that
work under the NCAA's rules,” she says.
The NCAA’s governance proposal, which
will immediately place 215 women on NCAA
committees, was approved 383-168 on the
second ballot. A recount was called for on the
first ballot since the measure required a
two-thirds majority.
The decision to sponsor women's
championships for Division I schools came after
the Division I delegates defeated the proposal by
one vote. After a motion to reconsider, it passed
on the second ballot.
"Personally I’m for it,” says women’s
gymnastics coach Henriette Heiny. "It can only
be good to be governed by one head instead of
having two groups trying to do the same thing.
"But I’m not sure I’d like to see us start into
the same recruiting game as the men We’ll have
to have a lot of money to do that,” Heiny says.
The money just doesn’t exist for
"high-powered recruiting," Carson says.
A majority of the University's women's
athletics coaches want to go with the NCAA,
Carson says, "but we can’t afford it We’re
caught between what we want to do and what we
can afford to do.
“A lot of other schools will be in the same
place — caught between dreams and reality,”
she says.
Monday, the NCAA delegates rejected by a
148-101 vote a proposal to award room and
board to scholarship athletes on the basis of
need, calling it an imposition on recruiting
The delegates also passed a package of
toughened academic requirements for athletes,
stemming from disciplinary action initiated by the
Pacific-10 Conference last year against five
Pac-10 members, including the University.
The University’s NCAA delegates — Vice
Pres. Ray Hawk, Athletic Director John Caine,
and law professors Wendell Basye and Jim
Mooney were not available for comment on the
NCAA’s actions.
Emerald Photo
With the NCAA including women's sfjorts, the future of the
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women is unsure
Schools have until 1985 to choose between the organizations.
Campus checks locks
in wake of dorm rape
Campus Security will check all ac
cessible University dormitory doors,
locks, and windows starting today,
says Public Safety Director Oakley
Glenn.
Glenn ordered the inspection fol
lowing Saturday’s rape of a female
student in the Walton-Adams dorm.
Two campus security officers and a
locksmith will conduct the security
check, which should be completed by
Saturday, Glenn says.
“Anything that’s a security risk" will
be inspected by the safety team.
Deficiencies will be reported and
repairs double-checked, Glenn adds.
Dormitory resident assistants are
responsible for checking the dorms
for security inadequacies every term,
says Barb Trout, Walton Complex
student manager.
"We maintain security as tightly as
we can.”
However, the assistants aren’t no
tified by Physical Plant personnel
when requested repairs are complet
ed, Trout says.
The window through which police
believe the rapist entered had been
reported to the Physical Plant fall
term, Trout says. But she adds it had
never been repaired.
Trout attributes the problem to “a
lack of communication” with the Phy
sical Plant.
Improvements in dorm security
have been made, “but Campus
Security still doesn’t have enough
manpower,” Trout says.
A report on the dorm-security
deficiencies will be released next
week, Glenn says.
Olum okays alteration
of inaccessible Fishbowl
Wheelchair-confined students soon
will be able to use at least part of the
elevated seating in the EMU Fishbowl.
"In my judgment, what we did was
incorrect,” says Acting University Pres.
Paul Olum, referring to the lack of
wheelchair access in part of the newly
renovated Fishbowl. "We regret having
done it.”
Olum says he decided on the alteration
to the $167,000 renovation late last
week. Chester Faller, director of the
Physically Limited Union of Students,
filed an affirmative action complaint on
Jan 7 about the lack of Fishbowl access
However, plans call for a 20-foot-long
wheelchair ramp only on the east half of
the elevated seating. Olum says the
University hasn't yet decided how, or if, it
will be able to make the smaller west half
accessible
University Planner David Rowe says a
west-side ramp would cut off too much
seating in the lower section. However,
the planning office is studying possibili
ties and may decide on “a mechanical
device,” Rowe says.
Falter says he'll have to wait and see
how the project turns out before he
comments.
"If it’s true, we re glad to see they
reacted so fast,” he says.
The University has not yet estimated
the cost of the project, nor has any
completion date been set.
Rowe says the east ramp will be fin
ished within 30 days after the University
receives a building permit, but he can't
estimate how long it will take to obtain
the permit because the length of the
application process varies.
Enough money is left in the original
Fishbowl renovation contract to under
take the wheelchair project, according to
Ralph Sunderland, director of man
agement and budget