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It’s been 36 years since Title IX. Since this monumental piece of legislation, women’s collegiate athletics has fought and struggled to reach the position it has today. But sometimes, women’s sports still lag behind—in terms of attendance, campus support, and prominence. For Harvard women’s soccer, however, all that changed on Saturday. In front of a packed Ohiri Field, with a throng of shirtless men cheering on, the Crimson played in one of the greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning...
...first of these changes is the departure of Jeff Orleans as executive director of the Ivy Group of Presidents—the closest thing the Ivy League has to a commissioner. Orleans, most famous for his role in the drafting and implementation of Title IX, was appointed to the post in 1984 as the organization’s first full-time director. The context then was one of turmoil. The Ivy League had just walked away from Division I-A football during the split into two divisions, choosing instead to remain in the newly formed Division I-AA, where...
...committed supporter of Title IX in the mid-1990s, which requires equal spending on men's and women's sports at the collegiate level...
...distant era when women weren't allowed to lift weights or pole vault or compete in the triathlon - all of which were inaugurated as female Olympic sports only as recently as 2000. (In the first modern Olympics in 1896, women were excluded altogether.) But today, with Title IX - the education amendment that allocates funds equally between genders - an entrenched part of American schools, and even Afghan and Omani women competing in the 100m dash, does it make sense to keep a pair of women-only sports in the Olympics...
...regimen kept him straight, and put him on the podium. With U.S. colleges cutting back men's wrestling programs, often to comply with Title IX's gender-equity requirements, Cejudo's rise offers an alternative path for prodigious wrestling talent. He skipped college; for better or worse, other grapplers will likely do the same...