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Over the past two years many schools have expressed dissatisfaction with the AIAW and have approached the NCAA to request that it sponsor women's sporting events...
Carole Kleinfelder, Harvard's women's basketball and lacrosse coach, became a member of the NCAA committee on national championships, despite the fact that both her teams are commited to the AIAW...
According to John Toner, the athletic director at the University of Connecticut and a member of the NCAA executive board, the NCAA did not even consider involvement in women's sports until three years ago, when it became apparent to them that the AIAW was not satisfying the needs of many women's athletic programs...
...while after it was formed, the AIAW was making excellent progress, and the NCAA did not want to interfere," Toner says. "But then they decided to locate their headquarters in Washington, and they got wrapped up in the politics of the whole thing at the expense of athletic administration...
...AIAW supporters contend that the organization's detractors are too impatient with the AIAW, which is barely a decade old and presumably has not had enough time to acquire the resources and efficient administration of the NCAA...