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Show Are Utah women athletes getting fair deal? By Elaine Jan ik place of the threatened suit and its demands for an injunction against all university sports, indud-uifootball, and a demand that women be given funds in direct proportion to the number of w omen on campus. Although the $L.2ti3 budget for the coming year is only about 1.7 percent of the total U. oi U. SxMJ.iiu direct expenditures athletic budget, and 12 percent of the 5121.595 budget for men's spoils. Assistant Athletic Director Janet Thurgood is satisfied with the Depict Newssiulf wuici 1 t I ! i g Lust Nov. 3 at 5 a m.. 13 members of the Uni-- , veisity nt Utah Women's Field Hockey Team packed themseh es and 30 hockey sticks into tv, o station wagons and drove to Pocatello. Ulano. i'ur the Intermountain Field Hockey Tournament. They armed at 9 a.m. and were on the field at 10. Their periormance. as coach CeCie Schar-- t man bluntly puts it. was rutten. The girls were just too tired. budget. I think we can run a decent program. They did not go up to Pocatello the night tore, which would have given them time to rest be- - Miss Thurguod and most temule athletes al the U. stress that they would not want to see any men's sports cut in order to accomodate womn However, they don't flunk it would hurt the men's program to be cut back some What is the status of womens in Utah today? Are women a fair deal? (First in a series.) They could cut out the steaks before the games, says Janet Brooks, a Juno U. of U. graduate, ivterring to the practice ot feeding football players before a home game. Another practice, that of lodging them at a local motel the night be to re homo games, was abandoned reason that n the to extra .lei ini's. couldn't afford pay they The dawn ride to Pocatello is nothing unique lor women athletes at the U. .Many women players have traveled all night in buses because they couldn't aiford motel rooms. Up until last year, if they took their own cars, they were not reimbursed Nor have travel expenses been the only inconvenience. The women who represented the University of Utah at last November's field hockey meet played with sticks so brittle that the team took along 24 extra ones ui case the original set broke. up before the meet, tor the simple Iasi y cal Steaks aside, women athletes are disgruntled that men on spoils scholarships are in effect paid to partictpale m sports, while women have to dig into their own putkelbooks m order to represent the University Miss Thurgood estimates that tour years ot athletics usually cost a girl from 5301) to S4UU first purchased in 19ti2. In tact, when Coach Scharman played hockey on the team seven years ago. these same tunics were already being held together by iron-otape. There have been times, says Assistant Athletic Director Janet Thurguod, when the swim team's 10 bathing suits have had to be shared by It is hoped that the 513.203 tor the coming will eliminate the need for women athletes to pay for lodging, food, equipment, insurance and physical exams. Coaches for the women's teams will gel 5400 for each sport they oversee four times what they made just two years ago. Although, unlike the men. women will still have to wear the same uniforms for several sports, they will get new ones and also warm-uoutfits. They played m tunics year n 12 swimmers two girls would have to run into the locker room alter their races and quickly hand ov er their suits to two other girls. But things seem to be changing fur womens' due primarily to a dynamo sports at the U. student leader named Susan Taylor and a group of women athletes who finally became tired of and budgets that equipment and uniforms seemed to shortchange them. "This was the year tor women's athletics.'' siys Susan, who championed women's sports They still may not draw big crowds, but women athletes at the University of Utah are finally drawing bigger budgets. "This is the year for women's athletics," says one student leader. while si rung on the student assembly and will of Law in the fall. With encouragement from Susan. University President Allred Emery came up with a 54.3U0 contingency fund, which togethe' with S4.UUIJ in unused student funds discovered by Susan, provided $S,300 for women's sports in the 1972-7school year. And with further encouragement, the Athletic Department tound 515.2(15 for women's sports for enter the College 3 the coming year almost 10 times what it had been in some prev ious years. Afraid that these gams will go down the tube in succeeding years, a group of women athletes visited the local oli'iee of the American to set in moCivil Liberties Union in suit against the university tion a We wanted a legal stipulation that as long as girls are interested m sports, they will be fully supported. Susan explains mid-Apr- class-actio- n It now appears, following a meeting lust week between ACLU executive director Stephen V. C'ook and U. of U. attorney Thomas Anderson, tlial some soil of settlement may be reached The most likely compromise seems to be the ot a establishment Milking fund" money which would actually be available to the women when they could show a need " An agreement, it reached, would take the Keeping posted on etiquette By Elizabeth L. Post Of the Emily Post Institute DEAR MRS. POST: Just once I read in a column that the tissue is placed inside the engraved wedding invitation to prevent the fresh ink from blurring and should be removed before mailing. But. ui fiftv-tiv- e vears 1 Rhine Hans' ( V Restaurant r Serving American Favorites s V and 11 :30 MONDAY AM -- 10:00 PM THRU SATURDAY DEAR MRS. J.: Tissues are iett in wedding invitations at the suggestion of printers. Even though the ink is dry, it can smudge if rubbed. The tissue eliminates any theof invitation chance becommg soiled if it is roughly handled in the mail SlinC tll5 A RESTAURANT -'- CLOSED SUNDAY 0i3 O & Tomorrow: High school sports for girls whole new ball game? a special oiler from America's favorite deodorant soap. Buy two bars of Dia! Soap (regular size) and get one more of the same size free. Just bring the coupon below to your store. A - DEAR MRS. POST: May one have a matron of honor and a maid of honor at the same time? Also, who signs the weddmg Next year. Miss Thurgood even hopes to have the school pay for laundering the uniforms something new for the women, but long an expected practice for men. 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