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...tell you why it was, but I knew that I wanted to come home.”Something wasn’t right. Markley first left the basketball team, then withdrew from Princeton altogether. She then spent a long year off—away from the gym and the classroom—thinking about the role that basketball played in her life. Markley’s sudden doubts about her commitment to basketball came as a surprise to her and those around her. A highly-touted recruit out from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., the 6’3” forward...
...Rather than a genuine attempt to provide comfortable workout hours for women and religious observers who might be uncomfortable working out around men, this policy beats around the bush by offering the least utilized and the most inconvenient hours and gym space. No one benefits from women’s only hours. They may be symbolic, but fail in every practical respect. However, there are losers: The new policy takes away from those who really appreciate working out during those hours when the QRAC is now closed...
...Caracas. It might also exaggerate the relationship between the grid and Caracas, and the grid and art.” However, a geometric grid is an important aspect of nearly every work: you find it in the windows of a high-rise, in the bars of a jungle-gym, in the arrangement of photographs, and even in a black wood bench (with a nearly invisible sign requesting “Please Do Not Sit”). The nature of the entanglements also generates the urge to discover hidden connections between distant pieces. There is an unobtrusive grid of small colored...
...This policy has been put into place for women who practice orthodox religion—principally, Islam, though also some more conservative strains of Christianity and Judaism—and who are therefore unwilling to publicly wear the sort of athletic clothes that Western women might wear in a gym. The problem is not one of equality—women are welcome to use gym facilities while veiled—but one of serving minority religious interests...
...without consulting community members at large and without correcting the discrepancy in resources this creates between the genders. Administrators who wish to cling on to this notion that this is an equality issue should, at the very least, make the situation equal by holding men-only hours in another gym at the same time...