COACH'S CLAIMS REJECTED U.S. AGENCY UPHOLDS FIRING.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - A federal civil rights agency rejected a complaint filed by 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 former women's head basketball coach, who claimed she was removed from her coaching job in retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and for sexual discrimination complaints against the athletic program. The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said there was insufficient evidence insufficient evidence n. a finding (decision) by a trial judge or an appeals court that the prosecution in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a lawsuit has not proved the case because the attorney did not present enough convincing evidence. to link the college's May 2000 removal of Jackie Lott as the women's head basketball coach to the fact she filed complaints against the college in 1998 and 1999. The 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. stated the college provided a legitimate nonretaliatory reason for removing her from the post. ``The reassignment was based on factors other than the complainant's participation in the 1998 and 1999 complaints such as the complainant's relationship with her peers and students and information obtained from the investigator regarding her professional conduct,'' Stella Klugman of the OCR said in a April 3 letter to the college. Lott, who remains at 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 as a physical education instructor, did not return calls Friday for comment. College officials are glad that an outside organization had confirmed their view of the matter, said Patricia Sandoval, AVC's interim president. ``We were pretty confident that the college had been respectful of Ms. Lott, the faculty and the students,'' Sandoval said. The matter is considered closed and the college is looking forward to Lott continuing on as a full-time instructor, Sandoval added. ``We have respect for Miss Lott and her teaching ability,'' Sandoval said. Lott, who had been the women's head coach since 1990, was pulled from the post after a three-month investigation by the college into a Dec. 17, 1999, incident in which a player accused Lott of using a racial slur. Lott was cleared, but the investigation determined she was hostile toward many of her players and assistant coaches. College officials declined to discuss the investigation, saying it was a personnel issue. College officials said pulling Lott from the coaching post was a management right. The Office of Civil Rights said there was no evidence to support Lott's contention that AVC's athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic leaked information about the investigation to reporters or that the college had improperly directed its investigator to expand the investigation beyond the Dec. 17 incident. Immediately after being removed as coach, Lott filed a grievance griev·ance n. 1. a. An actual or supposed circumstance regarded as just cause for complaint. b. A complaint or protestation based on such a circumstance. See Synonyms at injustice. 2. against the college, saying it had failed to follow provisions in the collective bargaining agreement The contractual agreement between an employer and a Labor Union that governs wages, hours, and working conditions for employees and which can be enforced against both the employer and the union for failure to comply with its terms. with the faculty in regards to discipline and complaints. In September, the AVC board reviewed and denied Lott's grievance. Lott filed a complaint with the federal civil rights office in March 1998, alleging that the college discriminated based on sex in the athletic program. AVC later agreed to end the civil rights investigation by adding more women's teams, providing a 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' field equal to the men's baseball field, and surveying local high schools to determine what sports to offer women. In January 1999, Lott filed an informal complaint with the college's Title IX coordinator, alleging disparity in the services provided by the sports information director to the men's and women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. teams. The coordinator determined there was a disparity and ordered the director to remedy it. |
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