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Editorial
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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
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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- |
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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
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To the Editor
I read with amazement, Mark
Platte's editorial (Riley vs USC,
July 16) concerning the proposed
Carolina Arts Center. I was
amazed, because I expected to find
the governor and your staff writer
better informed.
"A building we don't need to
build", Governor Riley is quoted
as saying. 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,
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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
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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
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institution should first establish
the programs to warrant such a
facility. Carolina has already done
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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
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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
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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
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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
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' whether or not to kill the human
she does to kill her husband, her
ther individual. Simply because the
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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
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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