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...athletics. Brown's team had won the Ivys the year before. I had already turned down full rides at Berkeley [California] and Illinois." Stern and other female athletes eventually filed a class action against the university to restore gymnastics and volleyball, citing Brown's failure to comply with Title IX, the landmark civil rights statute barring gender discrimination in education...
...phone call brought some very good news to Stern, now an investment banker in Baltimore, Maryland. The call was from Lynette Labinger, an attorney representing the women. Labinger told Stern that the U.S. Supreme Court would let stand a lower-court ruling that Brown was in violation of Title IX. "I was ecstatic," says Stern. "After six years, it was finally over. It shows that universities can't ignore women in sports...
...said that the purpose of the current study was not to evaluate Harvard's compliance with Title IX--a law requiring equal resources for women's and men's sports programs--but that the issue would be discussed...
...NCAA doesn't feel they should be held accountable for Title IX. I know that. They said it. I think they should embrace [the Title IX requirements]," she said...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday in an e-mail message that he is "confident" that Harvard is in compliance with Title IX...