successful, but grueling, court case with Colorado State, Hill's legal battle
with San Diego State turned into a dead end.

Hill's collegiate administrative career started as women's athletic director
at Colorado State in 1972, the first year Title IX was passed. As with most
women's administrative positions, she also taught courses, coached women's
track and field, and was director of intramurals. At that time, the women's
athletic program at the Fort Collins institution was budgeted for $5,500 per
year, whereas the men's athletic program was receiving $1.4 million. Hill
was asked to create a budget for the women's program, which had never
been done. When Hill developed a budget stressing equality between the
men's and women's programs, the chairman of the Physical Education De-
partment, Hill's boss, dismissed the proposal.

"He just laughed and said this is ridiculous, we can't do this," Hill ex-
plained. "I asked him if he minded if I took it to the president of the
university, and he said, 'Of course not.' The president thought it was won-
derful and put together a task force to bring in more money for the women's
program. It really threatened the folks there and so they went about finding
a way to get rid of me."

The official reason CSU gave for terminating Hill was failure to comply
with a condition in her contract that stipulated she agreed to go back to
graduate school to attain an advanced degree. But that clause never existed.

"No, no, no, there was no prior agreement," Hill stated. "In fact, on
my personal evaluation form, prior to my going to the president with my
budget proposal, my evaluation was glowing and wonderful. And there was
no mention of an advanced degree. There was even a place in the contract
for them to include that clause, and they didn't."

After what Hill calls a "long, arduous" court case, because it was a trial
by jury, she won the lawsuit and damages were awarded. The case, how-
ever, did not deter San Diego State's athletic director, Ken Karr, from hiring
Hill in 1976 as associate director for women's athletics and women's track
and field coach.

"I asked Ken, 'Are you threatened by someone like me who went to
court with the university,' and he said, 'No, that is one of the reasons I
hired you.' Ken was wonderful because he included me in everything that
happened at San Diego State. The very first meeting I was involved in, San
Diego State was hosting the University of Miami in a football game. There
were going to be 62,000 people there and the largest event I had ever been
involved in drew maybe 600 people. It was incredibly educational for me."

According to Hill, Karr was not in favor with the president of the insti-
tution, and the president moved Karr out of the athletic director position

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