Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This legal interpretation of Title IX suits Harvard well because College policy has long prohibited programs open to only one sex anyway. No final clubs, no women's center, administrators have argued for years...
Furthermore, the rules governing Title IX compliance with respect to academic programs has never been ironed out--only a court can flesh out the law's official interpretation, but no school wants to be the legal guinea pig. As a result, most schools have been wary of instituting single-sex academic programs that could open them up to a legal challenge...
...female athletes accused Brown of violating Title IX when the school tried to eliminate women's gymnastics and volleyball programs. After six years of legal wrangling which took them all the way to the Supreme Court, courts ordered Brown to keep the number of women compared to men involved in sports within 3.5 percent of the ratio of women to men in the undergraduate population...
Margaret Klawunn, director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown, says the Women Peer Counseling program may expand its ranks to include male counselors. But she insists such a move would represent a shift in philosophy for the program, not a legal consideration...
...bands are getting greedy. Earlier last week, the Backstreet Boys initiated a legal tussle with Jive Entertainment, the same group that nurtured N'Sync. But now, N'Sync's former management is slapping them with a lawsuit. The stakes? If N'Sync loses, they'll lose the rights to the songs that now comprise their yet-unreleased second album. And to who will the rights revert back? Maybe...The Backstreet Boys. Can you imagine the BSB releasing N'Sync's second album as their third album? Entirely possible...We've just secured an interview with controversial director Kevin Smith. Look...