University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1982
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NCAA and AIAW to propose a merger
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Tami Ganon, assistant administrator for the Big Eight Conference, spoke about the future status of women's sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at a luncheon at the Eldridge House yesterday.
Ganon discussed various aspects of the uncertain situation that the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has caused for the schools involved.
The lunch was sponsored by Kansas Womens Sports Inc.
Right now, the NCAA and the AIAW are in the midst of discussing a merger proposal until April 3, as a result of a call by a U.S. District Court Judge.
After the two groups work out a
proposed merger, the NCAA will have 15 days in which to decide whether or not to accept this proposal.
"The problem right now within the conference is that we didn't know when the Big Eight administration would make a decision of when women would be in the (NCAA) conference," said Ganon.
Part of the problem is that the AIAW had filed an anti-trust suit against the NCAA in an effort to block what it sees as a monopoly on sports by the NCAA. The NCAA later vowed to dismiss Hawson, president of AIAW Region VI and associate professor of HPER. HIPR
The dispute between the two groups came to a head on Oct. 9 when the AIAW filled an injunction against the D.C. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Donna Lopiano, AIAW president, said recently that the 10-year-old AIAW filed
suit hoping to give a preliminary injunction to prevent the 74-year-old NCAA, which has traditionally governed men's intercollegiate sports, from offering championships for women.
One of the AIAW's main complaints was that the NCAA scheduled its women's championships at a time in direct conflict with AIAW women's championships. After this move, the AIAW contends, NBC decided not to televeise its championships, Mawson said.
But the NCAA said its championship dates came at a natural end of the season.
When the preliminary injunction was denied, the AIAW suspended its recruiting rules, effective March 1. They also announced that membership applications for 1982-1983 would not be distributed.
The NCAA responded by issuing a letter that required any school that had been following AIAW rules to continue with them, or else the non-complying schools would not be allowed to compete in NCAA championships.
"The schools haven't planned because we haven't planned," Ganon said of the awkward transition period.
The uncertainty of the situation and the pending lawsuit has contributed to the difficult transition that Ganon described.
Meanwhile, the schools that participated in the AIAW will not be released from their commitment until Aug. 1. This poses a problem for schools still under AIAW rules to compete for recruits with schools under NCAA
The NCAA rules are more lenient, and allow paid traveling expenses for a recruit who visits up to five schools.
Endowment to be paid back for donations
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
The Kansas University Endowment Association will be reimbursed in a roundabout way for the check it wrote to cover more than $2,000 in student loans. The Friends of Solidarity, J.J. Wilson, director of housing, said yesterday.
The Endowment Association took the $2,000 from funds designated for use by the housing department. The housing department in turn, plans to use part of its funds to finance a project that those Endowment Association funds would pay. And thus reimbursing the Endowment Association indirectly, Wilson said.
The Endowment Association became involved in the Friends of Solidarity project when the University Counsel's office determined that the housing department could release from its stockhouse meals made by students skipping meals.
A state law restricts the expenditure of housing account funds for any purpose other than they were deposited for: Because of the Endowment Association's private status, the state law didn't apply to its fund designated for the housing department, so it was used.
The Endowment fund is usually used for special improvements to the residence halls, such as the wheel chair in Lewis Hall last year, Wilson said.
Wilson said a similar project was planned for Templin Hall this summer, and housing had expected to pay for it with the Endayment Association funds.
But now that the fund has been depleted, the cost of the wheelchair lift in Tremplin will have to come from other housing funds.
He said the $2,061 saved in the food budget because of the skip-a-meal program could be used to cover the expense, replacing the Endowment Association funds donated to the KU Friends of Solidarity
The $2,061 was saved in the food budget of the residence halls when students were asked to skip a meal on Feb. 14 and donate the cost to the heart of *Paroland* program, sponsored by the KU Friends of Solidarity.
The money collected was turned over to CARE to buy food packages and
deliver them to needy families in Poland.
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"The important thing is that we did get the money and the food packages and got them to Poland," Alan Lichter, adviser to the KU Friends of Solidarity and associate professor of English, said yesterday.
Wilson said he was satisfied with the situation because no one lost out in the exchange. Poland got the food, and
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Templin will get its wheelchair lift and the Endowment Association simply acted as the banker in the exchange.
But the University Counsel's interpretation of the state law in this situation rules out the same type of program in the future, Wilson said.
He said future philanthropy projects in the residence halls would probably have to be done through the hall social funds or direct cash contributions.
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