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Yale, which must slash an $11 million athletic budget by $560,000, will retire the varsity men's water-polo and wrestling teams and the junior varsity men's hockey team. Disgruntled Eli captains said they had been targeted because of low attendance and Title IX regulations, which compel universities to offer equal athletic opportunities to men and women...
...classic, History of the United States. To generations of American schoolchildren, Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portrayed by Channing and, more romantically, by Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than for any other historical personage except Queen Victoria...
Though it came too late for most boomers, the U.S. government gave a boost to women's athletics with the 1972 Title IX Amendment, which prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. The act helped encourage girls to go into sports by providing college scholarships and spurring the organization of girls' athletic teams. Since 1975, the number of girls' track-and-field competitors has grown sixfold. By 1989 there were 130,000 women competing in collegiate sports throughout the U.S., in contrast...
...subtle, but it's larger than you may think. Title IX is supposed to take care of that, but Friends groups aren't included in Title IX," adds Kleinfelder, referring to the legislation which ensures that federally funded athletic programs must give equal treatment, including funding, to both the men's and women's programs in the same sport...
When I applied to be The Crimson's sports editor, I said that I thought women's sports deserved more attention in The Crimson. I won the job, wrote a three-part series on Title IX and women's athletics, then proceeded to cover men's sports--hockey and football--for the rest of my Harvard career. It's not something I like to explain...