Word: reith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blew my mind more than anything else?" he asks, chuckling. "They had that book The Artist's Way in there, and on the side was stamped L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT. It just seemed so funny." Downey read whatever friends sent him: a biography of early BBC exec John Reith, Stephen King horror stories, inspirational works. "I can tell you a lot about the Bible if you want," he says. "Both the Old and the New Testament." He goes into a short, funny riff about what might have happened if he had had "some major spiritual awakening" in jail, then...
Panelists discussed the situation at other schools. Reith noted that Brown, which is currently being sued by the women's volleyball and gymnastic teams, has also argued that the percentage of athletic money it spent on women's sports was in line with the percentage of women athletes...
...trial and one appeal, courts have rejected Brown's argument, saying that the school wasn't offering participation opportunities equal to the interest in women's sports. And Reith said that when schools have been ordered to increase opportunities for women's sports, they "have had no trouble filling the slots...
...Reith said that since the universities administer the friends' money, the funding discrepancies caused by those donations constitutes a violation under Title...
...Whenever something is provided for a team, the school is responsible," Reith said. "They are still liable for women's team receiving equal funding. They have the choice of turning down the donation or coming up with that funding...