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HEW Publishes Anti-Sex-Bias Guidelines ;
Will Effect Athletic Funding Says McNabb
Almost two years after
President Nixon sißned a bill
prohibiting sex bias “under any
'>diK'j('on program or activity
receiving federal financial
assistance,” the Department of
Health Education and Welfare
last month proposed rules for
carrying out the ban
Miss Dot McNabb. West
Georgia's womens athletic
coach said that the effect would
> in funding for the athletic
lepartment activities She said
,hat under the new i uling funding
would be comparable to men's
athletics in relation to need
Caspar W Weinburger,
Secretary of HEW said it would
be January 1, 1975 and possibly
later before the regulations
would actually take effect. The
public was given until October 15
two months more than usual
to submit comments on the
proposals
Although the regulations also
contain important criteria telling
colleges how they can meet the
federal equal opportunity
requirements in areas such as
admissions, treatment of
students, and employment,
earlier unpublished drafts of the
proposed regulations generated
he most controversy in the area
>1 athletics
Even * hough the proposals do
W ESI T.EOIKiIAX
Second Front
President Emeritus Ingram Chosen
For Biographical Program On ETV
Dr IrvineS Ingram, president
emeritus of West Georgia
College, has been selected as one
Fire, Water
Damage Lab
A fire resulting from a leaf
press machine in a second floor
laboratory in the new Biology-
Chemistry Building set off the
automatic sprinkler system early
Friday morning
There was minor tire damage
on the second floor but extensive
water damage ' resulted
throughout the structure.
“Before the sprinkler system
could be turned off the water had
caused considerable damage to
the equipment and the building,
!)r Edward Gilbert, chairman of
the biology department, said
A campus police officer heard
the alarm at 5:17 a m. and got
assistance to deactivate the
sprinkler system.
College personnel worked in
the building over the weekend to
ready it for classes on Monday
morning
The actual damages caused
by the fire was the drying box.
part of a laboratory table and a
chair." Dr Gilbert said He
estimated total damages of
$3,000 The sprinkler system,
after dumping 3,000 to 7.000
gallons of water over the
buildi I .g. caused damages
estimates r $2,000 w hile the fire
was resj*v sib.e tor an estimated
SI,OOO in la-nages.
not exempt revenue-producing
intercollegiate sports, as many
athletic directors and the
National Collegiate Athletic
Associaton had been advocating,
they do emphasize that the
regulations should not be in
terpreted to require equal
aggregate expenditures for
athletics for members of each
sex
A provision that would have
provided an exemption for
revenue producing sports, was
recently added to the Senate
of the featured individuals for a
28-minute, 16mm film about an
outstanding Georgian
According to tentative
proposals, the film should be
readv for airing by early 1975
The Georgia Educational
Television Network, in
cooperation with the Continuing
Education Center at the
University of Georgia, sponsors
production of the films.
The film of each outstanding
Georgian is shown periodically
on the Georgia Educational
Television Network and made
available for rent to any
organization or individual in the
state. Also, the sponsoring
?gency gets a copy of the film
or its archives
Production cost will be paid by
contributions friends and
associates of Dr. Ingram,
through the cooperative efforts of
A&M and WGC alumni, and the
West Georgia College Foun
dation.
The focus of the Ingram film
would be on his contributions
over a half decade in the area of
public service. Highlights of the
documentary will include a look
at Ingram's role in adult
education, particularly his in
terest in the “College in the
Country" program which
originated at West Georgia under
his presidency
The Ingram story is unique in
the chronicles of Georgia
version of a bill to aid elementary
and secondary education, but it
was later deleted by a conference
committee
Colleges may operate separate
teams for each sex where
selection lor such teams is based
upon competitive skill," the
regulations say. But in operating
such teams, the college "shall not
discriminate on the basis of sex
therein the provision of
necessary equipment or supplies
for each team, or in any other
manner." they state
education in that Dr. Ingram has
served as president of three state
institutions: the Fourth District
A&M School, West Georgia
College as a junior college, and
West Georgia College as a senior
branch of the University System
of Georgia.
Statewide showing of the film
on the ETV Network has been
guaranteed Furthermore, ad
ditional show ings on commercial
television would be possible if the
series rights are purchased by
commercial television.
lne purpose of the film is to
record the unusual contributions
of native Georgians to the
educational, cultural, recre
ational. entertainment, in
dustrial. and business en
terprises in the state.
The invitation to make the
Washington presentation grew
out of a program conducted
earlier at the national convention
of the Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development in
California, said Dean Sills. The
title of the presentation is
“Learning Centers on Learning
Centers."
The research and filming of the
documentary customarily takes
approximately three months. The
format employs narration by a
notable person who in many
cases has known the subject
personally.
Still photographs, as well as
action shots, are utilized to obtain
the suitable effect and to con
tribute to the chronological
development of the documentary.
The proposed regulations also
require that college determine
“at least annually” what sports
students of both sexes want to
participate in
Where athletic opportunities
formerly have been limited to one
sex. the proposals say, the
college should “make af
firmative efforts'* to inform
members of the opposite sex of
the availability of athletic op
portunities “equal to those
available for members of the
opposite sex and of the nature of
those opportunities.”
Gubernatorial Candidate
Speaks To Kiwanians
BY STEVE LI NEK
George Busbee seemed much
thinner in his appearance here
recently than in previous cam
paign stops here. The reason, say
camapign aids, is that he is
running to catch Lt Governor
Lester Maddox in the popularity
poles He has almost done it by
pulling his percentage up to 29
one step behind Maddox's 30
percent).
“The people of Georgia are
tired of Governors that are more
interested in being celebrities
than they are in being good
governors," Busbee told the
Kiwanis Club
Aids say that Busbee is running
hard and for keeps, and that the
candidate appears sometimes in
two or three Georgia cities in one
day Soon the campaign will
make a split as it swings into the
final preparation days for the
primary August 13. Busbee
himself w ill return to his familiar
territory in south Georgia, his
wife will work the eastern part of
GEORGE BUSBEE
When asked if the regulations
could not promote some colleges
to drop minor sports if they could
not afford to send both men’s and
women’s teams first class, Mr.
Weinberger said, “Then I would
expect the men to hold bake
sales,” the device female
athletes have said they often had
to use to obtain money and for
uniforms and travel.
Whether or not there will be
women on the Braves basketball
team is still a debatable question.
However, if there was a need for
women to take part in the men’s
intercollegiate sports activities,
with women not having activities
of their own, women at West
Georgia could participate in the
basketball games, according to
Miss McNabb.
Miss McNabb said that the
need for women’s intercollegiate
sports must be expressed by a
reasonable number of girls, at
least the number to make up the
teams, such as five in basketball
or nine in baseball.
According to Miss McNabb, in
the situation of women’s sports at
West Georgia, there is no need for
mixed sexes on the basketball
team, because enough interest
was shown to get a women's team
started. The problem is however,
that the women are only partially
funded for their expenses.
the state, and campaign aid Tom
Perdue and the eldest of the
Busbee childfen "Buz” Busbee
will take the northern regions
“We can’t afford to slow
down." an aid said.
The Kiwanis appearance
showed a frankness seldom seen
in primary races. In turn
Representative Busbee went
down a nameless list of
democratic opponents urging
that they would be the wi Dng
choices and why he, felt that way.
As if pointing to the personages of
opponents the candidate said.
"Georgians are tired of gover
nors that are using the office as a
stepping stone to national office.”
And not leaving many of the front
runners out of the picture he
added "there are people running
in this race that have never held
elected office before.”
Aids feel that Busbee s youth
following is substantial. “The
people we have working with our
campaign are strictly volun
teers,” an aid said.