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...returned the questionnaire; of these about half the women who were involved in athletics felt that facilities were inadequate. So one of RUS' eight committees this year deals with athletics, keeping an eye on the Department to make sure it is providing the equal facilities for women that Title IX requires...
...There's a lot of talent in this year's freshman class," she says. "They look like they've had coaching." Kleinfelder says the players' improved skills are largely due to "the benefits they got from Title IX...
...Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments required equal opportunity for women in all school programs...
Kleinfelder says she would not be surprised to see a professional women's basketball team in five years. "Women's basketball wasn't exciting five years ago," she recalls, but "olympic women's basketball and Title IX have helped make women's basketball more exciting by developing players' skills...
...told by Ursula Goodenough that it is patently ridiculous that this should be the first Title IX case at Harvard--particularly when there's been so much discrimination from "the other side." Does this mean that "the other side" is to be denied the same rights as women for an unspecified period of time until some authority, presumably matriarchal, determines that Women, as a separate race, have been properly compensated for centuries of discrimination? Or is the whole episode but a timely reminder that male chauvinism--so petty, so desperately entrenched--is still very much alive and kicking amongst...