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Event explores women's role in sports industry The symposium, a Warsaw Sports Marketing Center project, will feature speakers and a panel discussion BY EVA SYLWESTER NEWS REPORTER The University’s ninth annual Women in Sports Business Sympo sium, which takes place today and Fri day, adopted the theme “Strides Ahead” to reflect the growing role of women in the sports business industry. “Women have really come a long way in this industry and are starting to make a name for themselves,” Univer sity graduate student Suzanne Davies, one of the event’s directors, said. The symposium is directed by students in the Warsaw Sports Market ing Center, a division of the Lundquist College of Business. Davies said the situation of women in the sports business industry has im proved greatly over the past decade, al though the majority of industry execu tives are still male. “For the most part, women are very underrepresented in the business side of every sport out there,” said Jennifer Rottenberg, senior vice president of »07Q ticketmaster 1 www.SquarePegConcerts.com f* SNIPCft & South Austin lug Band Friday April z2 (S) TfcketsWest 77 West Broadway ■ 8:00pm Doors 21 & Over Tickets At All Safeway/TicketsWest Outlets Charge By Phone 800-992-8499 Trashcan Sinatras & Nicole Sangsuree Tuesday May 10 77 West Broadway 8:00pm Doors ■ 21 & Over Tickets At All TicketMaster Outlets ■ Charge By Phone 866-866-4502 BEWARE PICKPOCKETS LOOSE WOMEN Maia Sharp & Marcus Eaton Monday May 18 77 West Broadway ■ 6:30pm Doors ■ 2\ and Over Tickets At All TicketMaster Outlets ■ Charge By Phone 866-866-4502 PPPPPB bmmB Thursday May 26 1010 Willamette St • 7:00pm Doors ■ All Age NEWS (SITicketsWest \E DONALD Tickets At All Safeway/TicketsWest Outlets Charge By Phone 800-992-8499 wowhall 'OFTHeWtSSmESO*ANKRIQ ThJ™I*™2 Village Green SI1 & AlterEGO 7:00pm Doors ■ All Ages Tickets At TicketMaster Outlets Charge By Phone 866-866-4502 Opening Night of the SUMMER IN THE VINEYARD CONCERT SERIES LumkWKdm & John Doe CRET HOUSE V! 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She said many men become in volved in sports business agencies af ter retiring from professional athletics or because they are close friends of professional athletes. These situations have been traditionally less common for women. Rottenberg said she liked playing sports in her childhood and chose to enter the sports business industry after college because she wasn’t sure what sort of position she wanted. She want ed to work for an industry that was in teresting overall. “I think it’s important that the women that are in the industry put themselves out there,” Rottenberg said, describing the symposium as an opportunity to help influence future sports business industry members. Davies, a second-year M.B.A. * student, said because the Warsaw Cen ter is one of the leading national M.B.A. programs of its kind, sympo sium directors benefit from the center’s connections with industry and alumni when recruiting speakers for the sym posium, as well as from their own in ternship opportunities. “It’s a great forum to join the lead ers in the industry today with the lead ers of tomorrow,” Davies said. Other speakers, according to the symposium’s Web site, will include women representatives from Stanford Athletics, the Portland 'frailblazers, IMG, Nike Women and International Speedway Corp. Val Ackerman, president of the board of the directors of USA Basket ball, will open the conference tonight with a keynote address from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in 182 Lillis. Ackerman will also receive the Warsaw Sports Busi ness Woman of the Year Award. Tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon in 282 Lillis, there will be panel discus sions on reaching the female fan, sponsorship trends and accelerating one’s sports career. All events are free and open to the public. “We hope to fill all the rooms up,” Davies said. evasylwester@ dailyemerald, com Tim Bobosky | Photographer Amber, 8, and Kehoe, 7, play on the structure at Moss Street Children's Center on Wednesday afternoon. Children: Security and safety are priorities for care centers Continued from page 1 background checks are a regular part of the hiring process for the OSU cen ters and are required for anyone com ing into contact with children. Student employee Allison Dworschak said, “I was really im pressed that even though we had no reason to believe he would hurt any one, no kid was left alone with him. ” She added that it would have been difficult for him to harm any child “because of the way things are han dled here on a daily basis.” Reynolds said when the CCDC first heard about Jackson’s possible crimi nal past through the “parent grapevine,” it was the CCDC that called the Eugene Police Department, not the other way around, as he feels the media may have portrayed. “Once burned, twice cautious,” Reynolds said. “We try to balance kids’ safety and security with being open and welcoming.” Now the scale has to be tipped toward safety, he said. “Keeping kids safe is what we do.” Reynolds said the CCDC sends in hundreds of background checks every year and “in the 18 years I’ve been coordinator, only three or four have come back with a record and they were typically drug charges.” Reynolds said he feels the parents gave the CCDC their “vote of confi dence” when only two families out of more than 200 didn’t re-enroll their kids, citing the incident with Jackson. One of those two families wanted to come back after only one month had passed, he added. emilysmith@ daily emerald, com ■vV*
