Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerably more complex. No University-wide policy yet exists on whether one student has the right to implement his personal artistic vision even of excluding a superior actor because of his or her race. Under what circumstances can a student director become dictator, in usurping another's right to equal access to University facilities? Far from being an isolated incident, Hail's experience is reputed to be a common one. What effect does repeated rejection have on the willingness of blacks and other non-white students to participate in the extra-curricular life of the College? Would Faculty legislation designed...
Asked about the possibility of a North American common market, Lougheed said "Canada would lose in a common market at present. When we build on the strength of our resources we will be on an equal footing for negotiations with United States...
Title IX, you might or might not recall, was born back in 1972 when the folks down in Washington decided that men and women ought to have equal opportunities to participate in athletics. Last December, in an attempt to explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...
There are two things to remember about the new proposals. The first is the portion requiring universities "to expend equal average per capita amouts of money for male and female participants." Confused? So was I. And when I asked Joe Mathis, spokesman in HEW's Office of Civil Rights, to tell me what was going on, he told me it means "proportionately equal average per capita spending." In English, that means that if Harvard spends $300,000 for its athletic program involving 300 men, it must also spend $150,000 for an athletic program involving 150 women...
...Part of the reason for it now is that there are four classes at Harvard that have been admitted on equal access so there are more women at Harvard than ever before, and in a sense women realize that even with equal access, all the problems are not solved," she added...