Word: reith
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Flannery and Kleinfelder joined Kathryn Reith, communications director of the Women's Sports Foundation, and two students who have filed a Title IX suit against Brown University, in speaking at the event, which was organized by two members of the Radcliffe crew team...
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...