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Yesterday, closing arguments were made in U.S. District Court in a class action sexual discrimination suit brought against Brown University in April 1992. The women athletes contest Brown's compliance to Title IX, a 1972 federal law prohibiting gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. In particular, the law specifies that schools must offer equal athletic opportunities to women...
Through thousands of pages of testimony and more than a dozen witness spanning three years, the plantiffs tried to demonstrate that Brown failed three tests of Title IX compliance as administered by the Office of Civil Rights: it does not provide participation opportunities in numbers substantially proportionate to the undergraduate enrollment; Brown does not have a history of program expansions, and Brown's present program does not fully and effectively accomodate the interests and abilities of female students...
Federal law, including civil rights statutes, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 all require that Harvard recruit more women, the alumnae report notes...
...similar report given to the standing committee two years ago demonstrated that the total amount of money Harvard gives to its men's teams was more twice as much as the funds allocated to women. Some claimed the report showed Harvard to be in violation of Title IX, part of a 1972 law which guarantees "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes...
Athletes at dozens of schools, including three Ivy League universities, have filed legal claims alleging that their colleges failed to provide the benefits mandated by Title IX...