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On the hook for $27 million for sex bias, CSU Fresno to add two women's teams.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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After a pricey 2007 dominated by three very public sex harassment lawsuits in its athletics program, California State University at Fresno is starting 2008 by adding two women's sports teams. It will reinstate its women's swimming and diving team cut in 2004 and add a new women's lacrosse team in order to comply with Title IX, announced athletics director Thomas Boeh.

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