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Sue Durant 4/13/05 Cleveland Hall Interviewed by Molly Bull, Matt Tait, Amanda Hamilton, and Colleen Becker Side I 0-5 I 1 5 Born in Salt Lake City August 6, 193 7, Childhood recollection of sports involvement in Salt Lake with YWCA and Salt Lake City Parks and Recreation. She lived there until graduating from college. Her Mother was a Physical Educator at University of Utah and later on at the YWCA. Her father was a at of U when both parents worked there, kHUU-k went to at 25-30 girls sport program that had "sport days". She coached a sport every quarter, volleyball, basketball swimming and softball. Head of Girls Athletic Association, found politics in almost everything she did with the school district. Got tired of politics after working there, so her mother encouraged her to attend graduate school. She sent out applications for graduate school. WSU was one of the was looking at to a corning here. WSU sent the first letter back; Sue said because too far people carne She her masters in the early 60's. M~lStc:~r's stu4dents were done in a year and a summer. She took a position teaching at at teatehiim! "'""'li"'li:';"'· men. Side II women's association was formed underneath the name the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. College women's sports grew out of the women's physical educators trying to use it as the educational framework for women in sport. The National Structure was primarily to run national tournaments. The National Structure exposed women's athletics through the 1970's. During this time period, Sue picked up Basketball coaching. Her team went to the national tournament. Mounting evidence was coming up that a lot of the things were "myths" to keep women out of sport. 0-5 Title IX and the effects it had at WSU. Political part of Title IX was mainly on the east coast and after it passed all public institutions became involved. Did not just include athletics but everything. Sue sat in on many different committees set up to review equity amongst the genders. A lot of change was made to gender-specific ideas on the WSU campus. Some areas were not very women friendly and others were not men friendly. When looking at inequities, documentation was made and a plan was developed to correct actions. Self study took at least 1 full year. (Mid 70's) Office of Civil Rights was the overseeing agency and they were developing a plan for interpreting compliance. A lot of change was occurring across the nation, the high school level was quicker than the college level due to mom and dad being right at the high school level. 5-10 In 1976 the report ofthe committee was made. Title IX dealt with the beneficiaries, and the coaches were under Title VII which impacted the In the summer of 1977 the athletes filed a formal complaint with the office of Civil Rights. A year passed and nothing had happened so an additional complaint was made. Students were very knowledgeable in the rules ofTitle IX. OCR would come in and make recommendations and nothing was being done. The were to state lawsuit was filed with the help of the Women's were and joined athletes in the lawsuit, Blair vs. Washington State University. The 39 athletes and a number of coaches that came and went throughout the 10-15 The network for women was strong at this time, center and ASWSU. was and pleased that the athletes took the next step. "It showed a of maturity" The case was fought on a contingency basis. This aU took place in the late 70' ~ case court had come and gone during university's athletics program. With the decision other departments were combined and WSU underwent huge changes regarding gender equity on the WSU. 20-25 With the changes, a combined structure of men's and women's athletics was formed with a male athletic director. Also, all JV programs were dropped and funding was reorganized. Many men's and women's sports were dropped as a result of the court case. Later on women's soccer and crew were added with the appeal going through. Ken Jacobsen and Sue then did studies and developed legislation that would provide seed money in addressing gender equity on their campus. In the legislation, two year schools were excluded and every two years an additional gender equity report was required. If inequities still existed, a plan was required to correct the inequities. 25-30 Money is permanent due to the legislation passed by Sue and Ken. Today we see more of the end result of Title IX. Women have now been given the opportunity to attend college more frequently. Many colleges see Title IX compliance as cutting men's sports versus adding women's sports. Sue then goes on to talk about coaching salaries and the problems they pose for NCAA sports. Sue feels that a lot of problems with college programs stem from the salaries that coaches are being paid. She also says that maintaining an educational framework is the economical way to go about things but the "entertainment" model is now being pushed. College athletics should be for education first and entertainment second. Many universities survive with huge intramural programs and no NCAA programs. 30-35 After the court case, Sue retired from coaching and then went into athletic administration. After the merging of the departments, Sue went back to teaching and helped form the Sport Management program. Looking upon current times, Sue feels that the history of Title IX be included in the history of sports programs and make it more understood by many people. Sue also talks about coverage by the media of women's sport. Sue says that she doesn't see any more T.V. coverage than they had when she was coaching. 35-40 She does see an improvement in media information, but still sees a discrepancy with media coverage in the news paper as far as column inches. There are lots of things that can still be done and as women become more involved in sport changes will be made. Sue sees a slow integration into media by women as being good for women in sports. She thinks that lots of efforts have to come from persistent efforts form determined individuals to make the world a better place. Sue then talks about the negative effects of Title IX for men. She doesn't view cutting men's sports as a very creative way to become in compliance with Title IX. She sees the need for administrators that look for ways to add sports programs instead of cutting men's sports. Sue thinks negative thoughts about Title IX are a way to trivialize women's sports or the non-traditional sports. She feels that large recreational programs along with large recreation centers are the best way to include many people in sport. 40-end Sue discusses budget control for women and women athletic directors and how women athletic directors are not as prominent as they could be. Also she then discusses athlete input in athletic programs. She thinks that student athletes earlier on knew more about the administration so they often did more.
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Title | Durrant, Sue Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Tait, Matt & Bull, Molly |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 94 minute oral history with Sue Durrant, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She describes her early childhood and her athletic family; her parents were active, well-educated, and both worked. After high school, she attended the University of Utah; then, with her B.A. in Physical Education. she went to Washington State University for graduate school and was hired for a job in in the Physical Education department. She has been active in the promotion of equality in sports (Title IX) at Washington State as well as a successful coach. |
Subject | Education; Coaching (Athletics); Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Utah--Salt Lake County--Salt Lake City; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b08f83 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Full Text | Sue Durant 4/13/05 Cleveland Hall Interviewed by Molly Bull, Matt Tait, Amanda Hamilton, and Colleen Becker Side I 0-5 I 1 5 Born in Salt Lake City August 6, 193 7, Childhood recollection of sports involvement in Salt Lake with YWCA and Salt Lake City Parks and Recreation. She lived there until graduating from college. Her Mother was a Physical Educator at University of Utah and later on at the YWCA. Her father was a at of U when both parents worked there, kHUU-k went to at 25-30 girls sport program that had "sport days". She coached a sport every quarter, volleyball, basketball swimming and softball. Head of Girls Athletic Association, found politics in almost everything she did with the school district. Got tired of politics after working there, so her mother encouraged her to attend graduate school. She sent out applications for graduate school. WSU was one of the was looking at to a corning here. WSU sent the first letter back; Sue said because too far people carne She her masters in the early 60's. M~lStc:~r's stu4dents were done in a year and a summer. She took a position teaching at at teatehiim! "'""'li"'li:';"'· men. Side II women's association was formed underneath the name the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. College women's sports grew out of the women's physical educators trying to use it as the educational framework for women in sport. The National Structure was primarily to run national tournaments. The National Structure exposed women's athletics through the 1970's. During this time period, Sue picked up Basketball coaching. Her team went to the national tournament. Mounting evidence was coming up that a lot of the things were "myths" to keep women out of sport. 0-5 Title IX and the effects it had at WSU. Political part of Title IX was mainly on the east coast and after it passed all public institutions became involved. Did not just include athletics but everything. Sue sat in on many different committees set up to review equity amongst the genders. A lot of change was made to gender-specific ideas on the WSU campus. Some areas were not very women friendly and others were not men friendly. When looking at inequities, documentation was made and a plan was developed to correct actions. Self study took at least 1 full year. (Mid 70's) Office of Civil Rights was the overseeing agency and they were developing a plan for interpreting compliance. A lot of change was occurring across the nation, the high school level was quicker than the college level due to mom and dad being right at the high school level. 5-10 In 1976 the report ofthe committee was made. Title IX dealt with the beneficiaries, and the coaches were under Title VII which impacted the In the summer of 1977 the athletes filed a formal complaint with the office of Civil Rights. A year passed and nothing had happened so an additional complaint was made. Students were very knowledgeable in the rules ofTitle IX. OCR would come in and make recommendations and nothing was being done. The were to state lawsuit was filed with the help of the Women's were and joined athletes in the lawsuit, Blair vs. Washington State University. The 39 athletes and a number of coaches that came and went throughout the 10-15 The network for women was strong at this time, center and ASWSU. was and pleased that the athletes took the next step. "It showed a of maturity" The case was fought on a contingency basis. This aU took place in the late 70' ~ case court had come and gone during university's athletics program. With the decision other departments were combined and WSU underwent huge changes regarding gender equity on the WSU. 20-25 With the changes, a combined structure of men's and women's athletics was formed with a male athletic director. Also, all JV programs were dropped and funding was reorganized. Many men's and women's sports were dropped as a result of the court case. Later on women's soccer and crew were added with the appeal going through. Ken Jacobsen and Sue then did studies and developed legislation that would provide seed money in addressing gender equity on their campus. In the legislation, two year schools were excluded and every two years an additional gender equity report was required. If inequities still existed, a plan was required to correct the inequities. 25-30 Money is permanent due to the legislation passed by Sue and Ken. Today we see more of the end result of Title IX. Women have now been given the opportunity to attend college more frequently. Many colleges see Title IX compliance as cutting men's sports versus adding women's sports. Sue then goes on to talk about coaching salaries and the problems they pose for NCAA sports. Sue feels that a lot of problems with college programs stem from the salaries that coaches are being paid. She also says that maintaining an educational framework is the economical way to go about things but the "entertainment" model is now being pushed. College athletics should be for education first and entertainment second. Many universities survive with huge intramural programs and no NCAA programs. 30-35 After the court case, Sue retired from coaching and then went into athletic administration. After the merging of the departments, Sue went back to teaching and helped form the Sport Management program. Looking upon current times, Sue feels that the history of Title IX be included in the history of sports programs and make it more understood by many people. Sue also talks about coverage by the media of women's sport. Sue says that she doesn't see any more T.V. coverage than they had when she was coaching. 35-40 She does see an improvement in media information, but still sees a discrepancy with media coverage in the news paper as far as column inches. There are lots of things that can still be done and as women become more involved in sport changes will be made. Sue sees a slow integration into media by women as being good for women in sports. She thinks that lots of efforts have to come from persistent efforts form determined individuals to make the world a better place. Sue then talks about the negative effects of Title IX for men. She doesn't view cutting men's sports as a very creative way to become in compliance with Title IX. She sees the need for administrators that look for ways to add sports programs instead of cutting men's sports. Sue thinks negative thoughts about Title IX are a way to trivialize women's sports or the non-traditional sports. She feels that large recreational programs along with large recreation centers are the best way to include many people in sport. 40-end Sue discusses budget control for women and women athletic directors and how women athletic directors are not as prominent as they could be. Also she then discusses athlete input in athletic programs. She thinks that student athletes earlier on knew more about the administration so they often did more. |
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