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Editorial Women athletes i _ _ iosc out to men Despite the existing laws connected with affirmative action, on the average, women in collegiate athletics are still not receiving the at\ tention and funding they deserve. In a study released recently by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, extreme discrepancies were pointed out between collegiate athletic programs for men and women. The study looks at colleges which belong to the Association for Intercollegiate Women's Athletics (AIAW) and Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). USC falls into this category. The study found that in 1979 on the average 30 percent of the athletes were female, 70 percent were male. Title IX of the Civil Rights Act says that in the budgets for athletic programs in federally assisted schools, men and women must be given proportionally the same amount of monev. However, nationallv colleges in the above mentioned category provided $2,156 for each female athlete as compared with $5,257 for each male athlete. In other words most schools are directly discriminating against female athletes. The disproportionate budgets for men and women athletic programs are usually explained away by the belief that certain men's sports bring in rpvpniips for thpir sohnol Hnuipvpr thic ic cnmomhaf a O ? - V? 1U UV1I>V1II1UV UJ U 1I1JUI in many AIAW and Division I NCAA colleges. During the past several years, over half of these men's athletics programs failed to make enough money to cover expenses. (This includes football and basket- | ball.) | How does USC compare with the national statistics? ? j Linda Singer, Assistant Director for Women's Athletics at Carolina I says that women athletes here are luckier than most others. She says that athletic director Jim Carlen has made a committment to women's sports by providing adequate funding and equipment. While Singer did not have budgeting statistics for USC she said the women's program has , everything it needs in relation to the scope of the program. However, Singer admits that many other schools do not put enough emphasis on building viable programs for women, and this hurts the program at USC. Average Proportion of Athletic Budgets / M.nas.7% \ AIAW and NCAA Division I Colleges i I 1978-79 V Bfcfr / "The AIAW does not have the funds to pay for teams who travel and ompete in tournaments. While men's teams often make a profit when they are in playoffs, through television coverage and funding provided by the NCAA, women do not." Singer said. At USC a contingency fund is set up to pay for traveling expenses due to tournament DarticiDation If tht? wnmpn's nrnommc uhm-o nn tn noi- i? ? 1 ? ~ f- "t5" " v? "F lv# F"1 *** other schools the AIAW would be in a better position to provide funding for travel and tournament play. Television exposure plays a large part in generating revenue in ? iLl -li J -- ' 1 1 ' ... aiuieiics, ana so iar me neiworKs naven t given women in college sports a decent chance. Singer says that the local TV stations have been good about covering women's basketball at USC because they realize viewers want to watch it. It's about time national networks realize this fact as well. ? The directors of USC athletic programs should be commended for progressing as far as they have in the area. Other schools in the state apparently aren't so smart. Furman University may be investigated in the fall by the office of Civil Rights for alleged discrimination in the women s atnietic department. Changes are needed. Women deserve equal treatment with men in college athletics. The department of Education and the Office of Civil Rights should work harder to enforce the regulations they have set forth on the matter. The television and print mediums should get with it and start covering collegiate sports on a more equal basis. And Carolina athletic administrators should continue to expand the viable women's sports program now established here. Karen Addy Editorial Page Editor gamecock On Columns Founded 1 908 In an eflort to increase reader input into I * tuture issues, the Gamecock offers a Stephen Riddell Editor in Chief weekly guest column. Columns must be limited to one Janet Gibson Copy Desk Chief newsworthy subject and must be no more Danny Powoll News Editor than four typed pages. All columns must be typewritten and triple spaced on a 65Mike Chibbaro Sports Editor space ,me A? facts mus( [>e accurate. The Mark Chevalier Entertainment Editor editorial page editor reserves the right to reject any column for any reason and edit John Parnell Graphics Editor jor Space content, style and accuracy. 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I find that ridiculous, when the performing organizations in the USC Music Department have no auditorium to perform in, and are forced to use inadequate rehearsal facilities. There has never been a building constructed at Carolina which was designed to house and meet the needs of the Music Department. Currently, faniltv mpmhore nrwrofo in r?nf_ J ... " ?U?. dated, "make-shift" quarters. Perhaps we should worry "that every institution in the state would probably like to have an arts center or share in the control of such a facility", but perhaps every Fetus app To the Editor: I am once again shocked and c unrealistic and evasive argum< those that defend abortion. Roni K refute previous anti-abortion com this paper by challenging her opp< real world. In viewing the "real world," I unwanted pregnancies cause u many individuals ; however, the hi womb is alsovery real. Does Ms. acquainted with biology, sugge within the womb of the mother is r If so, I challenge her to find any re science text that claims that the f< Professor to the Editor: I think there should be some standards established based on the students to feel free in evaluating their instructors and professors in different courses, departments, or on campus of the University of South Carolina; as it is in every other major university around the country. These standards would give the ?-Letters ? ix not f riv institution should first establish the programs to warrant such a facility. Carolina has already done tl,: ? t tent- ? 1?i? i_ - una. uov/ a ^auuuio in music share the reputation as some of the best prepared teachers and performers in the Southeast. The music faculty enjoys an international reputation for its expertise, and the performing groups are also known throughout the country and the world. In the area of the arts, it is not so much that USC is "selfishly looking toward its own ends to make this campus the 'window of the world'." It IS that the standard of excellence established and maintained has caused the world to take a look. Why should the facilities not match the program? Mr. Platte also ties the Carolina Arts Center in with HIS idea of Carolina's progress toward "caring more about those outside South Carolina than the people who live here". How strange. Only about 16% of the music majors are from out-of-state. The annual USC icarance is being or that stafc human being, lisappointed by the If the fetus is jnts presented by then it is entitled ingsley attempts to rights, the right ments presented in "right to choose' rnents to look at the within her than parents, or any ol fetus is dependent must concede that mother, and amr ntold anguish for does not mean it iman life within the titled to the protec Kingsley, a person The alternative st that the entity the destruction of lot a human being? however, is even r putable medical or stus is not a human s should be students the chance and the responsibility to categorize and rank their professors and evaluate them on the basis of their teachers' concern and care towards students during the term, not when the term is over. The evaluation based on these standards should be posted on the bulletin board of each department and published in the Gamecock at least once a month. The purpose of this effort is not 9 > 4 J pmn!!&*/\ ImoJNER ticket/j olity Summer Music Camp provides instruction for hundreds of students and teachers. The cost to the citizens of the state is virtually nothing - and less than 10% of the participants are from out-of-state. These are but a few examples from the music side of the arts, and there are many more which could be given. Doubtless, the other areas of the arts could cite similar examples. Had the governor or Mr. Platte suggested that other projects are more important, or other buildings needed more severely, that would perhaps raise a point for further Hicpiiccintl onH onolnnfinn T" uwvviuuivil UIIU V,* UlUUllUll. XI# simply dismiss the Center as not needed, frivilous, and of more value to "outsiders" than to the people of South Carolina indicates that both Mr. Riley and Mr. Platte are either misinformed, or uninformed, or both. Whichever it is both USC and the people of South Carolina deserve better. W. Patrick Wvlie Graduate - MME - 70 deceiving es at what age the fetus becomes a a living, functioning human being to the most fundamental of human 4^ ml ' * iu exist, ine momer has no more ' whether or not to kill the human she does to kill her husband, her ther individual. Simply because the t on the mother, invisible within the lewhat "inhuman" in appearance is any less human or any less en:tion of law. to abortion is traumatic and tragic; a totally innocent, unprotected life, nore unacceotable. Stephen Liverman Graduate, biology ; graded only to bring about better standards of education in our society ; but it would helD in coonprAtinn between students and professors. As a results the instructor, in the eyes of students, will be a very close concerned friend who cares about his problems and needs; instead of being the only power of the educational institution. Ray Chekeni computer science senior