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Show Same but different Lack of funds stymie women's athletics same basis with men's, only have a woman administrator, similar to James R. "Bud" Jack. It would be run by the Department of Athletic instead of the College of Health as it is now. A bill is currently pending pend-ing in ASUU asking for funding for women's athletics. "We don't want it to be pre-professional pre-professional training grounds like the men," said Miss Catten. "We also don't want any commercialism like the men either. All we want is one administrator. The men have all that personnel up there. Why shouldn't we have at least one?" she said. Miss Catten added that the most important thing being sought was pure, simple competition. "We just want to be able to compete with the other schools in the area," she said. She says they are asking for $15,000 per year out of the athletic fund from ASUU. She doesn't con sider this unreasonable in comparison com-parison with what her male counterparts count-erparts get. Despite charges to the contrary, both girls said, "We're not women's wom-en's libbers. It seems like every-time every-time some women try to get something some-thing done, people associate it with women's lib nowadays." Faculty personnel helping in the effort are Mary Jo Reiter, Janet Thurgood and Dr. Barbara West, all instructors in the College of Health. j By GARY LESSER Chronicle Staff '' "It's embarrassing being the big-' big-' gest college in the state and having the smallest intercollegiate pro-"' pro-"' gram", said Stacia Sower, who re- presents Women's Intercollegiate - Athletics at the University. ': Miss Sower and Sandy Catten " have both been instrumental in the 1;; drive to get women's intercollegiate " athletics back on campus in an s organized fashion. They said that : during the year, there are many ,s. sports that women compete in on Vl a collegiate level, but due to lack e,! of interest and funds, the program (. is at a near standstill now. Miss Sower said that last year j.'ASUU appropriated $3,000 for j:. women's athletics for all sports, j;. which figures out to be approximately approxi-mately 183 of the money ASUU gave to men's athletics. "We're practically the same as the males, " except were females," said Miss to- Catten. "The only thing is, we need people to know about it." For anybody interested in the cause of women's athletics, women's wom-en's lib, athletics, women or any related topic, a meeting will be held Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. in HPER W 117. Miss Sower said persons interested in showing their support of women's wom-en's athletics should attend. "The meeting is for women, but guys can come too. We want to emphasize that the difference between be-tween men and women is that we have to pay for our steak dinners if we want them, and we have to pay for our hotels if we want them too," said Miss Sower. The womens intercollegiate program pro-gram used to be called the Women's Wom-en's Recreation Association. That included intramural and extramural extra-mural (intercollegiate) programs, said Miss Catten. In a recent letter, University President Pre-sident Alfred Emery suggested that womens athletics be put on the |