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Title IX hearings a fraud? (Newswatch).(equality in college sports)(Brief Article)

Women in Higher Education

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An overflow crowd of 120 people wanted to comment at the second town-hall meeting of a blue-ribbon committee appointed to determine if Title IX is fairly distributing opportunities in sports.

Held in Chicago in September, the meeting was to focus on the impact of Title IX, the federal law requiring gender equity in federally funded education programs. The Department of Education chose 12 panelists to discuss its effects on high school and two-year colleges, but other participants addressed women's interest in sports.

The whole concept of the hearings is a fraud, according to Laurie Priest, athletics director at Mount Holyoke College MA. She questioned the motives of Gerald Reynolds, who President Bush appointed to the post of assistant director of the Office for Civil Rights but who has never been confirmed by the Senate.

Reynolds has been accused of opposing affirmative action, and Priest said he was sent to the meetings "to get you to buy into the concept of changing Title IX and using ...

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