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...envisioned it as capable of eliminating the gender gap that pervaded collegiate athletics. But last week, the Education Department put stronger fangs into Title IX by publishing rules requiring universities to report how much money they spend for men's and women's intercollegiate athletics...
These guidelines will make it easier to prove discrimination charges under Title IX, a law which requires equal opportunity for male and female athletes and was first tried in court by the Brown women's volleyball team...
Although it is too early to tell, these new rules will probably have a negligible impact on Harvard's programs. The Department reports that it has never been under a Title IX investigation nor has it ever received a complaint of Title IX discrimination. A major investment in the fall of 1993 helped keep Harvard's record clean, when the University gave $200,000 to five different women's teams...
...confident that we [Harvard] are in compliance with Title IX and do not expect to see any glaring discrepancies between the programs [men's and women's]," O'Leary said...
Though coaches agree on Harvard's compliance, they are split on whether these regulations will really benefit Title IX. Women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney Smith views this as an opportunity to make administrators nationwide more aware of the presence of discrimination in collegiate athletics...