University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1981
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Women consider NCAA move
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
If the opinions of KU women's coaches are indicative of athletic department officials' thinking, KU women's teams will probably participate in NCAA championships next year.
Women's teams at KU are affiliated with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which sponsors its own national championships.
The NCAA will sponsor its first women's championships next year.
But since the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted at its annual convention in January to include women, universities across the country are considering changing the affiliation of their women's teams to the NCAA.
KU WILL ANNOUNCE its decision soon after a meeting of AIAW faculty representatives from Big Eight schools tomorrow in Kansas City, Phyllis Howlett, assistant athletic director for non-revenue sports, said.
The AIAW has asked members to make a decision by May 1 about participating in its national championships next year. The NCAA has given schools until 1985 to decide whether to join its ranks permanently.
Until then, schools retaining affiliation with the AIAW may also participate in the NCAA women's championships.
BOB STANCLIFT, softball coach, said yesterday he thought there would be transitional problems with different players and their decisions at different times.
"In order to make this transition, you're probably going to see a lot of teams going to the NCAA national championships but staying with the AIAW a year or two, so the change won't take place overnight." he said.
Other women's coaches said they believed KU would either try this or declare affiliation with the NCAA outright. The only women's coach not contacted by the Kansan was golf coach Rassall Randall, who was out of town.
"These decisions are not up to us, the decision," swimming coach Gary Kemp said. "They are made by the administration. But I think there is a chance that they will be involved in the AIAW for a short time but participating in NCAA championships."
"I would like to see us go NCAA, but I think perhaps we should go with a two-year leeway."
ALL OF THE WOMEN'S coaches said they did not have enough information to decide which of the two organizations would be better for KU women's teams in the long run, but the NCAA's heavily weighted toward the NCAA.
"The only thing I could say at this point." basketball coach Marian
Washington said, "is that most of the coaches of major women's basketball programs around the country voiced against it." But they were inclined to do so with the NCAA.
"Of those who were not sure they wanted to join the NCAA, almost all definitely said they would try the dual memberin."
AIAW basketball coaches met March 28 at the AIAW national basketball championships in Eugene, Ore., for an annual meeting.
TENNIS COACH RANDY MEGRATH said he would like to see men's and women's teams operating under the same regulations.
"It seems to me that if you've grown things under one jurisdiction, it's going to be a lot simpler," he said. "The more you can make procedures, the better."
Stancliff said joining the NCAA could eliminate some of the confusion surrounding recruiting, academic transfer and transfer eligibility under AWA rules.
"In the past, with the AIAW, this has been a year-to-year thing," he said. "Every year they would change all very quickly. We had a very difficult for coaches and players."
Kempf agreed.
"I think there is a general consensus that we need to be under one heading," he said. "They (the NCAA) definitely offer us a little more stability."
WASHINGTON AND CARLA COFFEY, women's track coach, said they realized the benefits of joining the NCAA, but hoped women's programs would not be overlooked in the traditionally men's organization.
"Ihope that women will have a major role in directing women's programs in the NCAA," Washington said.
Coffey, recently appointed by the NCAA to a committee to set guidelines for NCAA national track and field championships for women, said she thought they were trying to draw women into its governance.
"Merged, not submerged. That's the key, I think," Coffee said.
She said the committee would meet in Kansas City this week for three days to resolve discrepancies in men's and women's track standards, validating standards for track programs.
THE ONLY DISADVANTAGE to joining the NCAA mentioned by any of the coaches was in working out theseancies, which occur in every sport.
"The only drawback I have seen," Stanclift said, "is that NCAA rules regarding recruits gives you a lot more flexibility. That kind of flexibility costs you a lot of money. Right now our athletic department needs to make a stronger commitment to women's athletics.
the school with the biggest budget go all the athletes. I see that the schools with a bigger commitment and more money will have another advantage.
"At this University, we don't have the funds to take advantage of this kind of recruiting. I think that most of the people here in women's programs feel the need to get a commitment from the athletic department."
"In the past, we had restrictions on recruiting, but everybody had those restrictions. so it wasn't the case that
Volleyball coach Robert Lockwood also said coach differing differents helped the biggest increase.
"The AIAW limits you to mostly regional recruiting." Lockwood said. "You can recruit from people who can afford to travel to your school. Around here there are not that many players to select from, but schools like UCLA in a big area have a lot of kids in the area to choose from."
IN THE NCAA, coaches can recruit on the road. But Lockwood said that schools that could not afford to bring potential players to the school or to give them the same treatment as other schools were at a disadvantage.
He also said that a larger recruiting budget for women's sports would probably be necessary and might result in more recruiting violations.
Kempf said recruiting rules in the AIAW were more appropriate for non-revenue sports. All KU women's programs are non-revenue.
According to Lockwood, other recruiting differences include auditioning and visiting potential players.
"For a simple example, women can come in and audition with your team in front of the coach. For men in the NCAA, they can't." Lockwood眼含笑说。 "You can go and you can go and visit a potential player and his family, but in AJW you can't."
COFFEE CITED additional differences regarding national chambers
"For national championships, the NCAA takes care of expenses for teams that quality," she said. "With the NCAA, we has to take care of these expenses."
AIAW faculty representative Susanne Shaw, who is also KU Athletic Corporation Board chairman and associate dean of the School of Journalism, has said that financial constraints have made a determining factor in the decision.
Most coaches said they were not worried about making a decision by May 1, as requested by the AIAW. Some have other things to worry about now.
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"I'm in the middle of recruiting, trying to get the best players I can with the regulations as they are now," Lockwood said. "My main concern is to try to win next year, and regulations go away to affect the way we play ball.
"The biggest thing is that right now we're in limbo. If we join the NCAA, we'll try to adjust to the regulations as soon as possible."
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Greek Week postponed until fall
Greek Week has been postponed until September because of bad timing and fraternity and sorority apathy in organizing the yearly event, committee members said last week.
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
It had been scheduled previously for April 26 through Mav 1.
“WE DIDN'T feel we are getting the participation in planning it,” Donna Meeker, Panhellenic vice president for pledge affairs, said. “I think that was good because of all the finals, spring fever, etc. at the end of the year.
Greek Week is a week of daily activities and civic projects for fraternities, sororities and independents. Meeker said that some activities still should be held this spring.
"There was not enough time to plan a good, solid Greek Week. We wanted to do it right, or not have it at all."
Fraternity and sorority pledge classes will paint houses April 26 for the financially disabled and elderly in a philanthropic project, she said. A haul, sponsored by the fraternal order, will be held April 30 for pledge classes.
Hawkstock, an annual open-air concert sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Students Concerned With Disabilities, still will be held May 1 in Memorial Stadium.
"WE AREN'T unorganized, we're just trying to prevent another poor Greek Week," Meeker said.
"I HOPE THERE'S no disappointment," Meeker said. "I haven't heard any complaints. It will be held back until the school is not much comfort to the seniors."
She said that Greek Week originally had been moved from the fall to the spring this year to promote more participation. But the committee discovered that April also was a bad time because of too many previously planned house activities.
Committee organizers have been researching Greek Week at other Big Eight schools to get ideas for next fall, Meeker said. Possible future events are in Kansas City and a night at a drive-in specifically for KU students.
Volleyball tourney lures skilled teams
No specific date in September has been set for Greek Week.
BY ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
Volleyball fans had their share of bumps, digs and spikes Saturday when the KU Volleyball Club sponsored the Volleyball Tournament in Robbins County.
"This tournament will be twice as large next year," Guenther said. "All the teams who participated said they were very impressed with Robinson's facilities and the KU campus and were planning to return next year."
Guenther said that the tournament attracted the limit of men's teams, but that he had hoped for more women competitors.
Steve Guenther, tournament director, said the tournament attracted many skilled teams this year and that next year more would return.
The tournament had three divisions: men's AA,men's A and women's.
Gracealand Club of Lamoni, Iowa,
de defeated KU in the men's AA championship, 15:4, 15:3, while the Gracealand Club of Lamoni, Iowa defeated KU in the men's A Championship 15:13, 15:4.
"We were hoping for a larger women's tournament, but unfortunately there was a tournament in Kansas City last weekend so there was a shortage of quality women's teams," he said.
In the women's division KU swept the championship round with KU-2 up-setting KU-1, 15-10, 15-6.
Guenther said it was no coincidence that Graceland had teams in both men's championship rounds.
"Graceland is a NAIA volleyball champion with a strong tradition in the sport," he said. "Their team travels all over the country and plays with the national weekend with five playoffs a week."
"Pretty soon we will be a collegiate-level team with strictly undergraduate members," he said. "We hope to form a volleyball conference with Graceland and some other teams and compete in more tournaments."
KU's volleyball team is listed as a club and is sponsored by Student Senate, but Guenther said the squad planned to learn to be a collegiate team.
The team will travel to Lincoln, Neb.
April 25 for a regional tournament,
Guenther said KU should do well in the
tournament. The men's AA team has
finished first or second in each of the
first teams it competed in this year.
Few spectators attended the tournament, but Guenther said this was expected.
Budig to visit campus Friday
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Although Budig has not yet requested information about the final stages of the search for a vice chancellor of UBS, information will be available, Shanki said.
Budig will not be briefed during this visit about several KU issues that he
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