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...changes come amid a fierce national debate on gender equity in college sports programs. Spurred by recent court affirmation of Title IX, the 1972 federal statute mandating equal opportunity for men and women in athletics, a series of successful lawsuits have already reached Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth...
...interview yesterday, Athletic Director William H. Cleary '56 said this plan does not represent a knee-jerk response to the threat of a Title IX lawsuit. But novice crew Coach Holly Hatton said Thursday she thought there was a connection...
...move came less than a year after an article in The Crimson raised questions about whether Harvard treats women's and men's sports equally. At the time, several athletes and coaches suggested that the University could be in violation of Title IX, part of a 1972 law which mandates "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes...
Meanwhile, Reardon and other committee membersdenied that the new program was an effort to bringHarvard into compliance with Title IX...
...clear that based on the track record ofrecent Title IX lawsuits, the [athleticdepartment] had to take the law seriously," saidHatton. "This shows that they've assessed theprogram and are moving in the right direction...