Word: equalization
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Diversity means uniformity. (If someone wants a "diverse" student body, say, that means he wants one in which everyone is more or less like him. This is only logical, because "minorities" tend to be in the majority now. Thus "equal opportunity" usually means "unequal," since some are more equal -- or is it unequal? -- than others...
That writing is Title IX, part of a 1972 law which mandates "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes." Such equal opportunity, some female athletes and a few of the department's bolder coaches say, is not provided by the Harvard athletic experience...
...Equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes" is a phrase subject to as many different interpretations as the strike zone in major league baseball...
...Harvard, Cleary says, the proof of equal opportunity is in the operating budgets for men's and women's teams, which, according to him, represent equal funding. What are those figures? That, Cleary says, is a secret...
...swim team at the University of Arkansas, which was cut under a plan to bring the school into compliance with Title IX, has already filed suit. They charge that the elimination of their program violated the equal protection under the law principle of the 14th Amendment...