European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Image by making critical comments about a child s physical attributes or suggesting corrective measures. Parents expectations Hopes and fears affect the Way they respond both consciously and unconsciously to their children s bodies or. Chavis said. Children who Ottun  mothers fretting Over their own bodies get the message very Young a 5-year old Cousin seeing me in a bathing suit Wilh my usually Hal Abdomen distended by a big breakfast asked innocently Why Are you a Little Lal a recent Survey of schoolgirls in san Francisco found Hatt the fourth graders on diets. In her workshops Hutchinson emphasizes that women must first learn to love their bodies before they can Hope to change Shem it s much easier to change one s body image than one s body she noted. Trying to whip your body Inlo shape As a punishment out of a desperate need to Correct your appearance will probably backfire Hutchinson uses imagery id help women experience their bodies and realize that even though for example they May be physically heavy or sturdy they can project a sense of lightness ease and Grace. In a relaxed state participants Converse with the parts of them they deplore and eventually coma to accept those parts As they Are. The therapist also helps women learn to locus on strengths not perceived shortcomings. The idea is to open up a Channel of communication Between you and your body that s Rifle real from what you be been doing Geller More aware she explained. She cautions against expecting overnight transformations ii lakes about 10 weeks of daily directed meditation Lor most women to come to terms Wilh their bodies. The 22 body image exercises she has developed Are described in a Book and on live cassette tapes available by mail from body mind productions 88 West Goulding Street. Sherborn mass. 01770. The Price including shipping. Is $10.50 Lor the Book alone or $58.50 for the Book and Lapes ,. Or. Ann Kearney Cooke a psychologist in Cincinnati who does body image research and therapy emphasizes that Lor women to really change their body concept they have to Stop blaming their bodies Lor what May be wrong in their lives. She. Loo uses guided imagery to help women make peace Wilh what has made Thorn Feol bad about their bodies and to create a new. More positive vision of their  Melpomene journal has suggested some activities that can Foster a Good body image make a list of activities and goals that you be been putting off because you look less than perfect then Start pursuing them one by one. Adopt a activity that is a Good stress for your body like yoga meditation fast walking biking or swimming. Write poems describing your feelings about your -. Body or keep a journal of the feelings you som Timos cover up by eating. Visit an Art museum or peruse an Art Book that depicts nude female sculpture and paintings from past eras when rounded even plump women were the. Societal Deal. Draw your own body in the nude marking Wilh red the areas you feet bad Aboul then to extra kind to your. Red parts. Indulge in body pleasing acl Vilies like massages luxurious Baths or clothing that makes you feel. Especially Good. About 65percent of women do not hits their bodies. Some a landmark agreement earlier this year in settling ,1 ii b million class action sex discrimination suit brought against the institution by 1.1 women All Temple. Graduates. ,. Under a consent decree in a Tecl Tor the next five years the school has agreed to keep the percentage of athletic scholarships granted to women equal to the percentage of female participants in the school s athletic program. Keep the percentage of Money Lor athletic expenditures Tor women within 10 percentage Points of. The percentage of women participating excluding coaches salaries and benefits Home game expenses and postseason Competition. For example if one third of the school s ath Teles Are women then the women athletic program must receive at least 23 por conf of Iho total athletic Cudgel. Add a woman s swimming team. Hire a Public relations person and a weight training coach for women s sports. / the demand for Money in the suit was dropped. This Case was tha Bailie Lor women s rights in athletics in microcosm with one Side Yelling for Equality and the other for reality a. " it s very exciting said Ellen Vargyas senior attorney for the National women s Law Center and the Legal representative of the Plain tills this is All mandatory it will no longer be Good enough for the school to just make its Best a Flores. Ii they Don t , they will be in Conj Empi of court there will no longer be any special consideration Lor Iho loot Ali team or Revenue produced by a sport. If Temple wants to Pul More Money into its men s teams that s Fine Bui they Are going to have to put More Inlo. Women s spoils As Well under court  i Bui according to Bob Reinlein. Counsel Lor the vember 30,1980 University the decree Only orders the school to March in Tho direction it had been heading. We consider this Case a compliment to our University he says. We Are being held up As a Model because we arc being told basically to keep doing what we have been doing. Everybody won the women student athletes won because while their program has improved tremendously Over the years it will improve even More. Temple won because the decree. Recognizes the additional costs of football and men s basketball thai the coaches salaries Are higher attendance is higher meaning higher Home game expenses and thai the equipment for football is More  Vargyas is not convinced. You la talk to a lot of men s athletic directors who la toll you that everything is wonderful and that they Aro Only meeting the demands of the marketplace she said. They la Tell you their sports programs Are divided into three categories men women and the football scam. Thai s the stupidest argument i be heard the last Lime hooked the football team was part of the men s. Program.". The suit filed in . District curl in Philadelphia charged thai in the years since title in has been in effect. Temple had failed to live up to its intent  some measure of Equality Between the men s and women s programs in terms of scholarship Money uniforms modes of travel hotel accommodations and locker rooms. There was an eight year Gap from lha Lime the suit was filed and the actual trial and that Reinstein said accounts for much of the Gap in the thinking Between. The two sides. The program that exists now is totally different from the one that existed when the suit was filed he said. The plaintiffs admit that a lot a the complaints have already been rectified i m not saying what we had before amounted to sex. Discrimination. Pcs there were some differences Belore. There were problems with locker room Lacalli lies Lor example that have since . But a  the differences were caused by the tact we had two different  years ago Bolero title in colleges had an average of 2.5 women s sports. Today that number is up to 7,31. In the 1973-74 school year after title in had been passed but before it went Inlo elect there were 34,000 women competing athletically in four year schools in this country compared to 175,000 men. That meant thai Aboul 16 percent of the Allelic population was female yet the women were Given just 2.1 percent of Tho athletic budget. By 1976-79. After title in had become effective 64.390 women were competing 28.9 percent of the total. The women s athletic budget however had risen Only to .14.3 person those figures Ware compiled by the . Commission on civil rights in 1930 today 120,2 in women Are in athletic programs at the four year level. The men number 236,337, leaving the. Women about one third i the total Allelic population no updated figures have been available on Athle lie budgets since lhe.1980 report but the growth for. Women at Many universities is impressive at the University of Southern California for example there were four women s sports in 1973 with a Tola budget of $7,000,.today, nine sports Are allocated about $1.9 million. The earliest numbers available at Urcla Are from the 1974-75 year when the women s budget was $268,000. The Lales figures put it at $1.6 million. At the University of Iowa the budget has grown from .�30,000 in the 1971-72 academic year to $3 million today. None of it came easy. Anything new is always suspect said Barbara Hedges so associate director of athletics at the us there Are Slit some pockets of resistance to women s athletics but those people have to be living in another  the stars and stripes Page 15