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...recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found they were less likely to use birth control...
...This is a strong reaffirmation of our interpretation of Title IX," said Leslie A. Brueckner, co-counsel for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a public advocacy firm that represented the plaintiffs. "It shows that courts are not going to sit back and tolerate blatant violations of this statute...
...Brueckner said Brown's policies only serveto perpetuate past discrimination against women...
...that there's less relative interestand ability on the part of women, but that ismerely a function of social discrimination,"Brueckner said, "and the goal of Title IX is toprovide equality of treatment so that interest andability can grow...
With as many variations as victims involved, the case of George Brueckner was repeated thousands of times in U.S. businesses last year. After totting up all the figures, Baltimore's Fidelity and Deposit Co., the nation's No. 1 bonder of business employees, estimated last week that during 1955 businessmen lost some $500 million from employee embezzlement -almost as much as they lost by fire...