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Show The Dixie Sun Page 4 Feburary Athletic funding for women: a long way to go Womens' sports throughout the United States have come a long way since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was passed by Congress. But funding for womens' sports still has a long way to go, including here at Dixie College. While the college's 1995-9- 6 budget for all sports is $335,000, only $66,000, or less than 20 percent is allocated for womens' sports. However, that figure is much better than just a few years ago, and according to Dixie College Director of Athletics Karl Brooks, will continue to improve. Brooks remembers when he attended Dixie College there were no women sports on campus. Significant improvements in women sports at Dixie occurred during the 1970s and 1980s, Brooks said, but while there was a budget for women sports, it did not provide a specific budgetary breakdown for each woman sport. Last year, the college budgeted for women's volleyball, basketball and softball. It also added one dollar to the price of each game ticket sale and earmarked that revenue for women sports. For the last six years, the college has also earmarked $1,000 each quarter to women sports. These funds originate as a result of negotiations with a local radio station to broadcast college athletic events. A third additional source of funding for women sports comes from an increase in student fees, implemented last year, in which the increase, amounting to one dollar per student, goes to women sports. Brooks said. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights lists ways colleges can comply with Title IX requirements. The most popular, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, is by achieving "proportionality"- - bringing the percentage of men and women on varsity teams into line with the ratio of men and women in the undergraduate student body. Colleges, such as Dixie, can also comply with Title IX by showing a history of increasing sports opportunities for the underrepresented sex, or by demonstrating that the athletics "interests and abilities" of that sex have been satisfied. In the absence of clear rules to evaluate the other criteria, many s office have relied on the colleges, courts, and even the proportionalitv test. Dixie's challenge will be to continue its efforts to bring equality to mens' and womens' sports into the year 2000. civil-right- t r F IvU-.- K(jlc Editor-in-Chi- n fo l M-- a 3 f is." fs x'i tU.' SDxc () Tracic I lonsun-Sulli- x I rs 1 . an Production Manager Lia Hamc) Faculty Adviser L.oivn Webb Accent Editor Natalie Mecham Spurts Editor Mike Koyle Photo Editor IVler Thorsted Copy Editor Amanda Taggart Opinion Editor FloUv Braithwaite Staff Writers and Photographers Laura Sluder, Lisa Perry, Kim Isom The Sim is distributed each Tuesday during Fall, Winter and Spring quarters as a publication of Dixie College, its Division of Arts, Letters and Sciences, and Dixie College Student Activities. The unsigned editorial on the Opinion Page represents the position of The Sim, as determined by its editorial board. Otherwise, the views and opinions expressed in The Sim are those of individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Sint or any entity of the college. Letters to the editor must be typed and must include the name and telephone number of the author. Only the name will be printed. Names are not withheld under any circumstances. The Sim reserves the right to edit letters for length and taste. Letters must be submitted by noon on Thursday THtf DIXIE SUN Dixie College, 225 S. 700 East, St. George, Utah 84770 (801) ext. 2063 Internet: suncc.dixie.edu CHAOS 6. 1 C by Brian Shuster Ec went E "Doc fi' st a Me1 xit Do you think Dixie College equally supports women athletes as they do men? w-i- ,cnd, fieri f sophi She in' e Angie Moore, 19, Freshman, Music major, Kaysville, Utah: " No, I don't think womens' ath letics are supported as well as mens'. I was very upset to learn that dance programs are given little money when the mens' basketball team gets matching shoes!" j vMVt Whi ih ehool ,tuff" cst ii eousir Hit never Without an immediate liver transplant, Im afraid shell die. On the bright side, Ive got some potatoes going, and Jane here is a whiz in the kitchen. ir she 'V 1 riovc was i ullti Cl Irani schoi hefoi rathe lege as mens. Slowly, we are building up, but it is almost impossible to change the traditions of the past." men attract more of an audience than women, more attention is given to what attracts the crowds." though womens' athletics have quite the publicity." don't retti state S taue ihar Is anybody out there? Nobody's talking on the record The college experience has always represented tec me an opporbn .v to express and discuss opinions without tear of any repercussions. Flow ever, I hae been inundu-ate- d bv overwhelming evidence that my idea of the college experience is not necessarily true on our beautilul campus, Subject to Change Tracie Sullivan ened with the "Dixie Spirit." Or maybe, it's just politics as usual. In some of The Dixie Sun's articles published this quarter, there has been concern by the administration that we are talking to the wrong people. And wnile we were told we have the right to speak to who we want, we were also informed we had to speak to certain individuals as well, before we run the articles. Although, in some situations it may have been a request from the administration I know of one particular case where where it was more of a demand. When The Dixie Sun covers stories we try to be fair, which includes talking to everyone we can. We attempt to cover and report thourghlv on all issues. We didn't need to be told who to talk to. I believe when individuals try to tell the press what to do it's an attempt to ultimately control editorial content. I have also been concerned about the opinions expressed to me off the record. Many of these quotes have been spoken by individuals consefearing quences if they spoke out publicly. The majority of these controversial comments have come from faculty members. How sad. Even the instructors are not allowed to formulate ideas and express them. The worst cases occurred when asked some faculty members to write letters to the editor concerning their opinions. Many of them requested The Sun print the letters We, erf course, are bound bv the paper's editorial policy which states we cannot print anything without a name.in There's not enough room this column to write how many similar situations I have encountered in less than five weeks. But I will list two examples. A few employees at Dixie College are required to have all quotes to the press approved by the administration before going to print. Faculty members receiving it from the administration they speak out of context to the press. (Referring to a parking lot story The Sun ran last quarter). Is there a problem with the "Dixie Spirit'' ? Or is it just politics as usual? I'm just tnankful I am in the journalism field where free speecn is respected and 1 the do dr: luc anunv-mousl- bu 10 he th "( v; ti tl e e i |
