Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-9-1975 The BG News January 9, 1975 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News January 9, 1975" (1975). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3042. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3042 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. >: An Independent Bowling Gf..n. OM* Student TrMjrsdoy, January 9, 1975 Voice THe BG news VoJum. 5S Number 49 Title IX creates sports controversy By Lsarl Lock IN OTHER words. Title IX regulations The regulations may or coordinator of women's athletics at "IT BELIEVE in separate, but said Suff Writer forbids sex discrimination in may not be changed, she added the University, "but the guidelines equal teams for anything based on Nehlen had a woman trainer on admissions, financial aid. Probably the most far-reaching for Title IX are unclear, and at this skill." said Hager. who is also the the team this fall whom be Officials in the Department of organizations and living facilities as effects of Title IX will be in the area point all we're doing is second- women's intercollegiate basketball described as "proficient and Health. Education and Welfare's well as in athletics. of women's athletics guessing what it's all about." coach. "Men and women have competent." He said, however, that (HEW) Civil Rights Division are Gwen Gregory. HEW lawyer ALTHOUGH THE guidelines are "THE PEOPLE who wrote up the different skills and there's a her future would probably lie with now writing the final regulations for chiefly responsible for writing the still vague, they have been guidelines for Title IX are going to difference in their flexibility and high school girls' competitive Title IX of the 1972 Education Act - Title IX regulations, is in the interpreted to mean that any high have to define what is meant by agility." sports rather than as a trainer for a the so-called "women's sports process of preparing position school or college receiving any inequality." said women's inter- At the moment, only fencing professional men's team. law." papers to accompany its recom- collegiate field hockey and lacrosse competition at the University is co- Most of the women coaches agree These regulations may improve mendation, which is expected to coach Carol Durentini. "It (Title educational, she said. that they don't want to use scholar- women's athletics at the University reach the desk of HEW Secretary News analysis IX) carries a lot of legal ramifi- "I can't visualise women playing ships or actively recruit women into and will probably affect both men Caspar Weinberger by the end of cations and the courts will have to a contact sport or trying to build their programs. Hager stressed that and women's athletics bore as well this month decide on the issue of equality." their bodies up like our guys do." the women at the University as across the country An HEW spokesman said that by federal funding for any reason, University Athletic Director said head football coach Don compete because they enjoy the early or middle February, the new risks losing that money if it does not Richard A Young said the intent of Nehlen activity - not for extrinsic rewards. In part. Title IX states "No Title IX regulations probably will provide equal athletic opportunity the law was good because equitable Title IX should exclude revenue "I think that we're giving the person in the United States shall be "travel to the White House for for women competition is a must producing sports (such as football, girls what they want and I don't excluded from participation in. be action by President Ford." This interpretation has already "Right now though, we (the basketball, and ice hockey), want to see that changed," she said. denied the benefit of. or be According to Gregory, the reason meant new athletic scholarships athletic department! are still trying because women just aren't "I'm proud of our program and I'm subjected to discrimination under that it has taken this long for the and money for women's sports at to figure out what to do with Title physically capable of playing them. proud of our students." any education program or activity 1972 proposals to reach President the collegiate level according to a IX until we're given directives." he Nehlen said Hager also said she doesn't think receiving federal financial Ford's desk is because the people recent Associated Press wire story. said "I might find a girl with great anyone, men or women, should have assistance. ." were given a voice in the Title IX has also been taken to The University athletic speed and good hands that 1 could sports scholarships. mean that universities must provide department is in compliance with use as a receiver, but I don't see an "I personally don't want teams, coaches, facilities and some the current directive which states influx of women going out for scholarships and I feel that recruit- scholarship aid to women who wish that "equal opportunities" must be football. Nehlen said. ing is a cut-throat operation," said to participate in competitive sports. provided lor each sex. Young said "WOMEN shouldn't compete Campbell, whose swimming team Is Women coaches and athletes have "We have no rules that say girls against men," asserted women's known as one of the powerhouses of conflicting views on Title IX. can't come out for our men's teams. swimming coach Jean Campbell the Midwest "Title IX does more for women We also have two female trainers "She should compete where the She would, however, like to see than anything since women got the and one female coach in our men's opportunities are right for her." out-of-state fees waived for her right to vote," said (Catherine Ley. sports," he explained Campbell said there could be a swimmers. president of the American Neither the men's nor the problem if men tryed out for Coach Durentini said her first res- Association for Health. Physical women's coaches have a real desire women's intercollegiate teams ponsibility was as a teacher, and Education, and Recreation. to see the formation of coedu- "If men started frying out for my had no time to spend on recruiting. "Sure, we've experienced a lot of cational intercollegiate teams, team, pretty soon I wouldn't have inequities." said Sue Hager, however any more women competing," she * To page four Sirica reduces sentences Dean, Mag ruder, Kalmbach freed WASHINGTON (API-US District director of the Committee for the Re- which resulted in the conviction ot testimony and to be interviewed by Court Judge John J Sirica ordered Election of the President, began a John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, lawyers for the special Watergate John W. Dean III. Jeb Stuart Magruder term of at least 10 months on June 4 John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. prosecution force. and Herbert W. Kalmbach released Kalmbach. a major Nixon fund- Mardian. Kalmbach had spent much of his from prison yesterday. raiser and his former personal All three had applied for a reduction sentence at Lompoc. Calif., Magruder attorney, had pleaded guilty to of sentence on varying grounds. at Allenwood prison camp In They had been serving sentences as a violating campaign laws and one count The exact location of the three at the Pennsylvania and Dean at a holding result of guilty pleas in Watergate- of selling an ambassadorship in return time of Sirica's order was not known facility at Ft. Holablrd near related crimes. for a political contribution On July 1, immediately. A spokesman for the Baltimore, Md. The US marshal's office said all he began serving a sentence of six to 18 U.S. marshall's office said they were The judge gave no reason in his brief would be freed from custody by 5 p.m months in custody "somewhere in the order for reducing the prison sentences EST yesterday. Sirica had sentenced all three men. Baltimore-Washington area" but to time served. Dean, formerly While House counsel His two-paragraph order releasing declined further details. His office said the judge acted on to President Richard M Nixon, began them did not give the reasons for petitions by Kalmbach on Oct. 1, by serving a one- to four-year term Sept 3 ending the prison sentences. THEY HAD been held in federal Magruder Sept. IB and by Dean on Dec. after pleading guilty to a single count minimum security institutions. Their :. of conspiracy to obstruct justice. THE THREE men all had testified at incarceration was Interrupted often to The reasons the three gave In their MAGRUDER, the former deputy the recent Watergate cover-up trial, permit them to come to Washington for petition were not available. Changes may appear in Russian hierarchy Gate-crasher Marshall Raids, top, stands in front of the By William L. Ryaa preferential treatment for the Soviet Whit* House on Christmas day AP Special CorrespoBdeat Union to eased restrictions on after he brail* through th* emigration. gat*s. Sieve Brash, right, of A world with more than enough to worry about has new reasons to be SINCE BREZHNEV obviously bad WBGU-TV examine! malarial nervous with the spate of widely approved the "understanding" on that Fields sent to th* station varying reports on the health of Leonid score, the vehement denial of it.