Word: browns
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...Harvard interprets Title IX more stringently than others. Schools like Dartmouth and Brown have proven more willing to consider single-sex educational programs--like the Women's Science Alliance--as part of the mission of a co-educational university. At several other universities, a single-sex Science Alliance could still have a future...
...Even Brown University, subject of one of the most highly publicized Title IX lawsuits in recent memory, has been slow to apply the law to all-female educational programs...
...female athletes accused Brown of violating Title IX when the school tried to eliminate women's gymnastics and volleyball programs. After six years of legal wrangling which took them all the way to the Supreme Court, courts ordered Brown to keep the number of women compared to men involved in sports within 3.5 percent of the ratio of women to men in the undergraduate population...
...even with its heightened awareness of Title IX, Brown has allowed a counseling program limited to women...
Margaret Klawunn, director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown, says the Women Peer Counseling program may expand its ranks to include male counselors. But she insists such a move would represent a shift in philosophy for the program, not a legal consideration...