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Committee member Peter Brooke asked Reardon about Harvard's basketball facilities as he surveyed Watson Rink (complete with an elevator and special seating section for handicapped people, another legislative initiative of the '70s). After all, Brooke said, Exeter has a beautiful, four-court arena which is bigger than...
That is, until last week. Finding an "implied right" in Title IX, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that individuals can indeed bring sex discrimination suits against schools and colleges. Women's groups immediately hailed the decision as a breakthrough for women's rights. So did White House Special Assistant Sarah Weddington, who argued that it was better to have individuals assert their rights in court than rely on an already overburdened HEW. Legal experts noted that the decision will not only make it easier to bring sex discrimination cases but racial discrimination cases as well...
Actually, individuals have already brought suit under Title VI and Title IX, and many civil rights lawyers and courts have assumed all along that they could. The high court's decision simply removes any doubt and makes people aware of their rights. Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "Once the Supreme Court gives the green light, you can expect more suits...
...hurting minority candidates who tend to score worse than whites on entrance exams. But the risk that discrimination suits brought by one group might backfire against another group is no reason to "simply shut the courthouse doors," says Tribe. That places too little faith in the courts to work out fair solutions. A more basic justification for a private right to sue is one recognized by the high court last week: if Congress passes a law against discrimination, there has got to be an effective way to enforce...
...whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than Pat Jordan. His own decline as a professional pitcher was recollected in the poignant autobiography A False Spring. Four years ater, he turns from the diamond to the court to watch basketball players yield to the pressures of ambition, and to the damning testimony of their skills...