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Haworth, Karla – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Higher education associations representing hundreds of colleges and universities have filed briefs asking the Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that Brown University (Rhode Island) discriminated against female athletes in cutting support for their gymnastics and volleyball teams, in violation of federal Title IX regulation. The…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Athletics, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law
Leatherman, Courtney – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Female athletes and women's sports administrators have joined a broad coalition of civil rights groups lobbying for passage of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, to counteract the effects of a 1984 Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the scope of federal antidiscrimination laws and endangered women's opportunities in intercollegiate…
Descriptors: Administrators, Athletes, Civil Rights Legislation, College Athletics
