Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senator focused on segregation in the public school system. Bond said Reagan's Justice Department has been trying to revive "separate but equal"--segregated--schooling...
...exchange for sexual favors. Berkeley suspended the professor without pay and he ultimately resigned. The book also mentions an incident at Clark College when in 1980 an assistant professor filed harassment charges against another junior faculty member. The assistant professor, joined with another woman, took her case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a sex discrimination complaint. The male professor then sued the women for defamation of character, prompting them to countersue. Ultimately, the case was settled internally and all outside suits were dropped...
...After we were sure that she was aware of the risks involved, we had no intention of prohibiting her from playing," Wilson said. Reardon said that Harvard could legally have prevented Coulter from playing. Title IX of the Equal Education Act of 1972 does not require Harvard to let Coulter play, because tackle football is a contact sport, Reardon said...
...some cases, officials argue that in loco parentis responsibility for students in their care implies an equal responsibility to safeguard children by, say, keeping drugs off campus. But schools cannot be required to discharge this responsibility by overriding constitutional rights. Others argue that schools simply exercise parental discretion by searching students in their cause...
...majority of the New Jersey Court suggested that random locker searches would be legal if students knew that their lockers could be physically searched. Here, as with the supreme court's condonement of roadblocks searching every car on a given road, we have the new legal doctrine of equal injustice masquerading as equal protection...