Title Bout for Title IX.

Brake, Deborah

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ERIC Number: EJ543277

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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ISSN: ISSN-1067-1803

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Title Bout for Title IX.

Brake, Deborah

Community College Journal, v67 n4 p27-28 Feb-Mar 1997

Discusses a Title IX action brought against Rhode Island's Brown University as a result of the university's demotion of two women's varsity teams to unfunded status. Reports that the court rejected Brown's argument that women are less interested in sports than men, ordering it to comply with the law. (AJL)

Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Athletics, College Students, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Retrenchment, Sex Discrimination, Womens Athletics

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Education Amendments 1972; Title IX Education Amendments 1972

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