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New Push in Fight Against Sexual Violence on Campus
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMonths after she was raped in her dorm room during her freshman year at Kansas State University, Madeleine Lietz heard a rumor. The man who raped her, also a Kansas State University student, had finally been expelled -- not for sexual assault, but because he had simply failed his classes and flunked out. In an account some fear is common among survivors of sexual assault at the nation's colleges and universities, Lietz said her school's reaction -- or non-reaction -- to her rape was akin to a second trauma in itself. "I was given little to no help after the assault. The issue -- the ...
Title IX Reality: In 2011, Girls Still Shortchanged in Sports, Says Ex-Olympian
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyFor Nancy Hogshead-Makar, who won three gold medals and one silver in the 1984 Olympic swimming competition in Los Angeles, success has often required a large dose of persistence. As an elite swimmer, she was undefeated in dual meets throughout her high school and college competitive careers and she qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. But the United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics because the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan, and it was four years before she could feel the thrill of standing atop the Olympic podium. As International Women's Day marks its 100th anniversary ...
Connecticut Judges Rules Cheerleading Is Not a Sport
By not in system - AOL NewsHARTFORD, Conn. (July 21) -- Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women's volleyball team. ...
Title IX Tweaked: Rules Against Gender Bias in Sports Get Tougher
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the Obama administration will close a Bush-era loophole in the policy that governs gender equality in sports. The 2005 interpretation of Title IX was criticized for not being tough enough in its mandate that schools don't discriminate along gender lines. The White House is putting in place a more thorough test for assessing compliance with the policy, Biden told a group of female athletes at George Washington University. "Making Title IX as strong as possible is a no-brainer," Biden said. "What we're doing here today will better ensure equal ...
More Than Sports: Title IX, Women and Science
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyLadies, start your engines, and your calculators, your computers, your autoclaves and your oscilloscopes. There's work to do. When Linda wrote about what it meant to her to watch Title IX change the field for women's sports and wondered why we couldn't do the same for science, I was reminded of someone else who wondered that: ...
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