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...WOMEN'S USA SOCCER TEAM If Title IX needed a face to show how transforming women's sports can be, it got a team of them. Though the competition was limited and the games were a bit dull, this group got America excited about female athletes. These gals were fun, talented, likable and incredibly market savvy. Thousands of little girls are now denting their garage doors, telling themselves they are Julie Foudy. And best of all, so are little boys...
Opposition to the continuation of the program seems based in the fear that it will be perceived as discriminatory against men, leaving Harvard open to lawsuits for violation of Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments. This law stipulates that universities and colleges must offer men and women equal educational opportunities. While other schools like Dartmouth and Brown have continued women-only programs despite the possibility of such lawsuits, the Harvard administration has been unwilling to consider following their lead...
GNHBA: Pretty soon, if we're lucky, we can all talk in words that mean nothing. Gibberish. Pig Latin. I was pretty good at Pig Latin. Ix-nay on the olerance-tay, people. At this rate, I could have a political career...
While the story quotes directly from a variety of sources inside and outside Harvard on the interpretation of Title IX, there is not a single quotation or personal citation of any Harvard authority in support of the notion that Harvard's policy towards opening undergraduate programs is driven mainly by Title IX considerations. Indeed, the following excerpts from the e-mail I sent The Crimson during reporting of the story assert exactly the opposite: "[Harvard] might do many things that are not understood to be mandated under Title IX. It has never been Harvard's objective to do the minimum...
...repeat the basic point: Harvard will not do anything it believes to be illegal under Title IX, but it does not regard Title IX as prescribing the maximum it should do in order to create equal opportunities for women (and men) in Harvard College. Harvard's stance towards opening all its programs (except individual athletic teams and choral singing groups) to men and women is not driven by an interpretation that Title IX made...