AVC'S TITLE IX CASE CLOSED CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE ENDS WOMEN'S SPORTS INQUIRY.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's efforts to improve women's sports programs has prompted the federal Office of Civil Rights to close its case on the school. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights notified the college that it was closing its 1998 case regarding a complaint alleging that the college's athletics program denied women athletes the same opportunities afforded men, a violation of a federal law called Title IX. In a letter dated Oct. 22, the Office of Civil Rights noted that the college honored a commitment made in 1998 to add three women's sports to its athletic program. The college never admitted any violations, but submitted a voluntary resolution plan to add women's sports. Since 1998, the college has added soccer, tennis and golf for women. ``Based on these actions, OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. has determined that the college has fulfilled its commitment pursuant to the VRP VRP Vehicle Routing Problem VRP Voyageur, Représentant, Placier (French) VRP Vehicle Recycling Partnership (USA) VRP Versatile Routing Platform VRP Vanuatu Republican Party VRP Vessel Response Plans (voluntary resolution plan),'' wrote Arthur Zeidman, director of the Office of Civil Rights' San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden office. ``The monitoring of this case is closed as of the date of this letter.'' The college came under scrutiny after a complaint, from an undisclosed source, was received in March 1998. At that time, investigators noted that no women's teams had been added to the athletic program in the previous 10 years. The investigators found that, when compared with the proportion of women in the student body, there were too few AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C women participating in intercollegiate in·ter·col·le·giate adj. Involving or representing two or more colleges. Adj. 1. intercollegiate - used of competition between colleges or universities; "intercollegiate basketball" athletics. In addition to committing to providing more women's sports programs, the voluntary resolution plan included pledges to develop a system to monitor spending on each sport and to reimburse men's and women's coaches for meals and other expenses at the same rate others on the faculty get for work-related travel. The plan also included steps to ensure that male and female athletes are treated similarly in terms of trophies, award banquets and team photographs. The college also added a field for women's softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' . ``We are affording women an opportunity to participate in a variety of sports,'' AVC spokesman Steve Standerfer said. |
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