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...sister. The gym classes you skipped at school now form a significant part of your adult entertainment. You are working hard, playing hard, making yourself hard and strong. The sports for which you were once only a cheerleader now serve as your after-work recreation and, thanks to Title IX, part of your school-age daughter's curriculum. Spurred by feminism's promise of physical, domestic and economic freedom, you have done what few generations of women have dared or chosen to do. You have made muscles ? a body of them ? and it shows. And you look great...
...president. By the '70s, students had become more aggressive in pressing civil rights claims: the handicapped sued for proper facilities, women charged sexual harassment, minorities claimed discrimination. Today about 100 colleges and universities face charges that their athletic policies discriminate against women, in violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights...
...current formal procedure, which the Faculty adopted in 1978 to comply with federal Title IX regulations, stipulates that an ad hoc committee of three current or recent Faculty Council members consider a grievant's case and then make a recommendation to the Dean of the Faculty...
...least my uncle accepts the idea that a woman can be a sports fan, however ignorant he may think she is. In these days of Title IX, it may be OK to be a woman athlete, but women sports fans are still an anomaly. Go to any football stadium or baseball park, and try to find a ladies room. It's not as easy as you thought. Now imagine trying to find one when it's a little more urgent...
Treating sexual harassment as an issue covered by Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in education, the soon-to-be-defunct Department of Education funded the project "with the assumption that if not now, never," Orr said...