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By Tom Coy no
After 11 years as the voice in women's
sports, the Association for Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women is fighting a losing
battle for its livelihood.
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association may have delivered the AIAW
the fatal blow this year by sponsoring 31
women's national chamDionshins.
The AIAW founders benefited greatly one
year after the organization began because
of the Title IX's passage in 1972, which
mandated equal educational opportunities
for women. In one year the money invested
in women's intercollegiate sports grew
dramatically.
The AIAW then had an apparent
- monopoly on women's collegiate sports, and
the NCAA showed no interest in getting
involved.
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introduced at the 1975 NCAA convention. It
called for a report and plan on the issues
involved in the administration of women's
intercollegiate athletics at the national
level. The report also would determine the
desirability and necessity of a program for
women's national champhionships. The
resolution was not passed.
THE NCAA began to change its way of
thinking in 1979. A committee was appointed
to make recommendations regarding the
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athletics and the development of programs
ind services for women's athletics.
As AIAW prepared for a battle with the
NCAA that never really materialized. Most
colleges joined the NCAA while keeping a
token membership in the AIAW.
Bob Marcum, USC Director of Athletics,
said USC is not a member of the AIAW and
had followed NCAA rules as of Sept. 1.
The AIAW's final hopes of survival
depends on legal battles.
On Oct. 9, 1981, the AIAW filed suit
seeking both preliminary and permanent
orders to prohibit the NCAA from sponsoring
women's championships or from
governing any aspect of women's inStudents
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should allow every USC student a ticket to each
game, according to Gary Goodman, athletic tic
The number of student tickets has increased
1981 to 15,000 in 1982, Goodman said.
"According to the registrar's office, there a:
thousand fee-paying students, and those are th
eligible for (student) tickets," Goodman said.
ALSO CHANGING is the university's block
Last year dorms were allotted a set numbei
block seating. Sometimes this allotment was
number of dorm residents who wanted I
Goodman said.
"This year, if they (a dorm) brings down 400
them 400 tickets," he said.
"People who stand in the line (at Russel
distribution) will get the better seats, he said.
TICKET DISTRIBUTION at Russell Hoi
Tuesday before each home game except
opener when tickets will be distributed on Wee
The last digit of a student's social se
determines when he may pick up a ticket.
This year the first pick-up period has been t
hours (8>a.m. to 10a.m.), because "you only g<
in the good seats," Goodman said.
IF STUDENTS do not claim all of the ticket
distribution, the remaining tickets will be r<
next day at Russell House, he said.
After that the tickets become available to
students still may claim a leftover studer
Rosewood Drive athletic ticket office. "I
(student) ticket, we'll give it to them," he saic
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sellouts except the Georgia and possibly
games.
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had 11,000 tickets and only in two of the sevt
did we run out of tickets," he said.
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this year although the tickets will have gate
printed on them, Goodman said.
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MARGOT POLIZY, AIAW lawyer, said
the AIAW was seeking relief under the
Sherman-Taft Anti-Trust Laws and would
seek treble damages. She said the final
damages had not been determined but they
were about $2.5 million, which could mean
$6.25 million to the NCAA.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey
originally set the pretrial conference for
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Aug. 25, but the case was transferred to U.S.
District Judge Thomas Pennfield Jackson,
and the new trial date was set for Oct.,18.
"NO EVENTS or championships have
been scheduled for 1982-83," Jackson said.
"We decided that if we failed to receive a
preliminary injunction in April that we
would not plan any events. We did not
receive the injunction and we did not send
out any membership forms for 1982-83."
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'Most universities are gravitating
wards the NCAA because of the
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USC Athletic Director
"Most universities are gravitating
towards the NCAA because of the great deal
of experience they provide as well as the
money available," Marcum said.
THE ISSUE is money. If a college athlete
wanted to competc in an AIAW event, the
college pays her expenses. The NCAA,
however, would pay for the athlete's
transportation, and according to Marcum, if
the event makes money the NCAA would
also pay for such expenses as food and
lodging.
As colleges began to drift toward the
NCAA, the AIAW weakened. Membership
dipped severly and got even worse when
some NCAA and AIAW championships were
held at the same time.
When NBC decided not to televise several
AIAW championship, many remaining
colleges abondoned the AIAW for the NCAA.
POLIZY SAID it is sad to see 10 years of
good work go down the drain just because
the NCAA has more money.
"Sure, the NCAA has plenty of money.
They have a three-year basketball
television package worth $48 million and a
four-year football television package worth
$264 million," Polizy said. "And then they
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There were bad feelings between the
AIAW and NCAA before the court battle
began. Polizy recalled a statement made by
former NCAA President Bill Flynn. "it was
something like this: 'The men playing
spores should have laundry service, but the
women didn't need it because they like to
wash their own clothes, anyway.' "
sne said the female athlete is in danger of
becoming a second-class athlete again.
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