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Show n ' d!L Title IX Page ampus November 4, 1998 Jews jpeltzinfowest.com Editor: Jennifer Peltz uniforms for what it costs to $155, 722 or 73.7 percent of all cash outfit a football player." while scholarships, "That's an inflated figure But football isn't the only women's volleyball, basketball, because of football," SUU sport with a high expense. softball, and soccer had to split Athletic Director Jack Bishop Another difference comes from $55,527. Men comprised 65 persaid. "A football trip costs about basketball where three officials cent of total athletes though ten times as much as any other are required to officiate a men's only 48 percent of the school. sport." game but only two are required However, overall financial aid, Yet, under an equivalency for women's games. including scholarships and In assessing financial assisboarder waivers, awarded to standard, identical benefits, opportunities, or treatment are tance, a college or university is female athletes was in propornot required to be in compliance required to award athletic scholtion to the number of women with the law if the differences arships in proportion to the participants. are shown to be the result of amount of men and women parOnly three schools, Dixie, factors. ticipants. For example, if 35 perSUU, and the University of Utah nondiscriminatory awarded men student aid proGenerally, the differences are a cent of an institution's intercolresult of the uniqueness of a legiate athletes are female, then portional to the number of male particular sport. For example, it about 35 percent of financial athletes. Yet, these schools were costs more to outfit a football assistance should be awarded to still found out of compliance player in a complete uniform female athletes. So, the law does with their original men's and than it does a soccer player. not require the same number of women's participation rates. Much of the 'disparity in scholarships or scholarships of Mary Ellen Cloninger, Utah operating expenses can be equal value for men and State University associate athattributed to football, says Holly women. letic director, says some dispariYet when considering cash ty in numbers of athletes receivGraham, University of Utah director of Athletic Compliance. scholarships Dixie ing financial aid can be alone, "Football is a huge monster College also fails to comply with explained. on one end," Beazer said. "When this standard. Dixie's three "When we count participait costs $140 for one helmet, I men's sports, football, baseball, tion, some athletes are counted and basketball were awarded From page 2 1 involved cross-countr- y, in both track and but an athlete is awarded only one scholarship no matter how many sports he or she participates in," she said. "The equity act only asks for the number of students getting financial aid, and that's misleading when compared to the number of athletes." The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil is Rights ultimately responsible for enforcing Title EX, but they have yet to remove federal funding from an institution that is not found in compliance. Title IX, however, does permit individual institutions considerable flexibility in achieving compliance with the law. "Most times when we find a college or university out of compliance, they enter into an agreement to come into compliance in a certain amount of time," said Lillian Guitierrez, regional director for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. "It's very rare for money to be taken from an institution." Two cases of Title IX discrimination were filed against Utah colleges and universities within the past three years. So, what are colleges and universities doing to improve their female athletic participation? Both Dixie and USU added women's soccer in 1997; SLCC plans to add women's softball in 1999; CEU added both men's and women's track and crosscountry this year; SUU is looking to add women's soccer and volleyball by 2001; Weber State University added women's soccer three years and has no plans at the moment to implement additional women's programs; University of Utah also added women's soccer four years ago and is currently studying adding another women's sport; and Snow is looking at adding two female sports and limiting their football size within the next five to six years. Sears Still Standing Strong By Jennifer Peltz jpeltzinfowest. com As the door to Sears opens, the smell of perfume, squeaky clean floors, and new shoes envelops shoppers, welcoming them to a new shopping haven set up in St. George. "We've had our eye on St. George for a long time; about six years," said Sears General Manager Darwin Dower. The grand opening officially commenced on Saturday, Oct. 24, and "exceeded our expectations," said Dower. Taking eight months to be completed and costing over $7 million, customers think it was well worth it. Wandering throughout the 55,000 square feet of the store, customer Nancy Whitam said "It's beautiful; it really adds to the community." Out of the approximately 165 employees working at Sears, 150 of them were hired locally, according to Dower. "The $1.1 million in spendable income from the annual wages paid will benefit the community," said Dower. "We have a good reputation like Chevrolet, apple pie, and motherhood," said Dower with a smile. "Our goal is to give absolutely outrageous customer service." Roark Critchlow from "Days of Our Lives" visited the store on Oct. 31 to sign autographs, along with Tyler Christopher from "General Hospital" on Nov. 31. From Last Weeks Campus Security Incident Reports. Oct 22 - Jason Wright was cited for minor consumption of alcohol. Oct 27 - Katy Morgon and Jessica Talbot were charged with theft Oct. 28 - Jessica Talbot was cited for tobacco violation and providing false information to a police officer. Oct 31 - James Christienson and Phillips Bernier were cited for minor consumption of alcohol. - Vanessa Gladwell was cited for minor Nov-consuming alcohol. TOiTww,'tmiwiir |