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Since last year a new force has entered the arena of athletics. In June, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare issued proposed guidelines for the implementation of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act that forbids sex discrimination in educational institutions. The regulations deal primarily with athletics and now, threatened with the loss of federal funds, Harvard will have to assure that men and women athletes have "equal access" to sports and "equal facilities...
...Title IX regulations were helpful in working out the training schedules this summer, Watson says, because they demonstrated to Harvard coaches that it was not just Watson who was changing old athletic policies. "The coaches were hired with definite ideas," Watson says, "They didn't know why they should have anything taken away from them. Now they have to accept...
...women, who must fight for every inch of ground on which they stand, are developing a strength which many of us, their more privileged sisters, have not begun to feel. We have been slipped into the backrooms of power by the male gatekeepers with a watchful eye on Title IX, E.R.A., affirmative action, and all those other impending legal nuisances. And, grateful for their charity, we have learned to walk softly, and to check our big sticks at the door. We tread with our fear kept quietly under wraps--unsure at every juncture if we can fight, and hoping...
LAST WEEK's HEW briefing on the new Title IX guidelines that prohibit sex discrimination by institutions receiving federal money was an ideal situation for the Boston police to demonstrate just how progressive they are. "Why not assign one of our patrolwomen to the meeting," the officer in charge probably thought. "Hell, there will probably be mostly women at the briefing anyway...
Open Dugouts. Yet scrappy young female athletes and their families are gradually forcing changes. When parents in Kalamazoo, Mich., found that high school boys were offered three interscholastic winter sports while the girls had none, a complaint was filed against school authorities under Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, which forbids sex discrimination in any institution using federal funds. In New Jersey, the Civil Rights Commission has ruled that Little League teams must open their dugouts to qualified girl players. Little League officials have carried the dispute into extra innings, however, and this week the State Supreme...