Forum Flashbacks: Jan. 29-Feb. 4
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, FEB. 4, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: MHS Homecoming Assembly – Members of the Maryville High School dance team pair up with various guys at MHS, to entertain the crowd at the Winter Homecoming pep rally Friday. Junior Cody Purdy executes a dance move during the routine.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 30, 1976
Cooperative Efforts Required for Title IX
Dr. Michael Hunter, athletic director at Northwest Missouri State University, is “strictly for equal opportunity in athletics but the most important matter now is how we are going to go about achieving it.”
The problem for Dr. Hunter is one which intersects at several levels with several groups.
First he must administer the athletic programs of the University within the budget system of the University, he must contend with the other schools in the MIAA conference and finally he must also contend with the precepts of the NCAA and the AIAW. …
He points to the example of the coaching staffs at the University, which he believes have shown a great deal of understanding and cooperation in sharing facilities, practice times and sometimes coaches — a situation dictated by limited physical resources and increased demand for sports by women at the University.
NWMSU, however is a leader in the MIAA conference in moving toward full compliance to Title IX while “other schools in our league are hiding from it or hoping it will go away. Hell, it’s here.” Dr. Hunter said NWMSU’s Title IX leadership, which is contrasted by the other schools’ wait and see attitude toward the guidelines, is hurting the school.
“Title IX is already hurting us in recruiting men athletes,” said Hunter, “because the other coaches in the conference are telling these athletes that we’re leading the way in the conference in Title IX and that is going to cause cutbacks in the men’s programs.”
What Title IX does, is say, “you shall” offer equal opportunity to women who desire intercollegiate, interscholastic, and intramural sports.
What Title IX doesn’t do is say where the money to implement its “you shall” is to come from, so money is the key problem for schools and the basic alternatives are fairly simple.
The first alternative is simply stated but more difficult to accomplish: raise more money (Northwest will need approximately between $200,000 and $230,000 to get full parity for women athletes in coaching and other related athletic expenses).
The alternative, says Dr. Hunter, is also simple but also painful and that is “cutbacks; limiting playing dates away from home, cut back on scholarships but once we do that we can’t compete,” a situation which might require the school to withdraw from the MIAA, an alternative Dr. Hunter would hate “because the school has been there for a long time and there is a lot of tradition in the conference.”
The school is already making economy moves in scheduling, said Dr. Hunter. Whenever boys games are scheduled, doubleheader girls games are sought so that travel expense can be combined — a situation which the coaches appear to like, according to Dr. Hunter.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 29, 1951
Official Calls License Bureau Charge Illegal
The Maryville license bureau has been making a service charge of twenty five cents for each license plate issued. Ray Eckles says the bureau under his management will continue to make the charge. Since the Ellis Cook Chamber of Commerce dispute came up several weeks ago, this newspaper has had many inquiries questioning the legality of this charge.
The Daily Forum put in a call to G. H. Bates head of the state revenue department, under which the state license bureau operates. Mr. Bates advised this paper that the license bureau law does not provide for any service charge. He further said that some of the smaller offices in the state have been making the charge, and that his office has repeatedly warned the bureaus that they had no legal right to levy the charge, and if the purchasers of license plates did not object to paying the fee, there was little his office could do about it.
Mr. Bates further said that any person who desired a license plate could get same for a three cent stamp, by merely filling out an application form and mailing it to the state license bureau in Jefferson City, and the plate would be mailed out immediately.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
