Page 8 University Daily Kansan, October 12, 1981
AIAW files antitrust suit to bar championships
By AILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women filed an antitrust suit Friday, seeking to bar the National Collegiate Athletic Association from holding intercollegiate championships for women's sports.
The AIAW announced Saturday that it had filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., in retaliation of the newly organized AAA women's sports organization, which president, said the NCAA move has had a "devastating impact" on the AIAW.
"It became increasingly apparent that this impact was the result of a massive effort to buy women's athletics at schools and universities to operate interest," Loliano said yesterday.
At its annual convention last January, the NCAA voted to sponsor 12 women's sports championships
begining this fall. Schools now have
options to play, both on
NCAA and AW championships.
ACCORDING TO AIAAW's complaint, its active membership has dropped from 961 schools last year to 772 in the 1981-82 school year.
The complaint also stated that about 14 percent of AIAW's remaining members have indicated that they would like to participate in the 1981-82 AIAW championship program.
Phyllis Howlett, KU's assistant athletic director, said she doubted the suit would hold up in court and thought it was not a good idea of dress the new NCAA championships.
"I think it's premature to make those decisions," she said. "But it would seem to me that each of them, which includes people who would be more comfortable with the AIAW philosophy."
Last spring, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board decided that KU women's teams would participate only in NCAA championships,
Howlett said.
KU women's teams opted for the NCAA championships because coaches felt it offered the best competition, Howlett said.
"Clearly, the stronger institutions are learning toward NCAA championships," Howlett said. "We perceive ourselves as a national competitor."
ALTHOUGH KU'S decision to participate only in NCAA championships was intended to allow women's teams to participate in the best program, it left the track team without an indoor meet.
Carla Coffey, women's track coach,
said the team was disappointed
because it would not participate in an
indoor championship.
"We're sort of upset, but I would say that the meet will be incorporated into the NCAA schedule down the road away." Coffey said. "To have the had
Meanwhile, KU track women will begin gearing up to participate in the NCAA Division I outdoor meet scheduled May 3 in Providence, Utah.
option of going to the AIAW meet would have been good."
According to Pat Wahl, a spokesman for the NCAA women's championships committee, the NCAA will consider sponsoring women's national championships in soccer and skiing. She said that she was January Wahl said, however, that she did not think a proposal for an indoor track meet was on this year's agenda.
"I don't think indoor track has enough schools interested to establish a championship," Wahl said. "The determining factor in having a championship is the number of teams that sponsor (participate in) the sport."
Wahl said that a steady flow of schools were starting to participate in the NCAA championships, but that
some schools are participating in AIAW championships as well. Some, including KU, still abide by AIAW rules concerning eligibility and recruiting.
Because the NCAA is offering schools travel expenses to its championships, it appears that it would be an economic advantage to switch from the AIAW but However and dollars saved would be spent elsewhere.
"It appears that you're saving money, but under federal law you have to spend equally for women, so there isn't a significant gain." Howlett said.
The money normally used to fund AIAW championships for example, would be added to the recruiting budget instead, Howlett said.
Schools have until 1985 to commit themselves to the NCAA program. The deadline was intended to allow schools ample time to readjust their athletic programs toward the NCAA structure if that is their intention, Wahl said.
Trial dates set for 2 suspects
A Douglas County District Judge set the trial date Friday for two people charged in connection of the August murder of a Topeka woman.
James Paddock, Douglas County district judge, set Dec. 2 as the trial of L.V. Luarks, 22, Topeka, who was charged Sept. 15 with first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the slaying of Terry L. Brown, 25.
Paddock set Dec. 16 as the trial date for Gwynndolyn MNair, 23, Topeka, the second person charged in the case. McNair was charged Aug. 13.
The victim's body was found Aug. 12 in a farm field three miles northwest of Lawrence Power and Light, on the Kansas River west of the city.
Brown died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
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