COLLEGE TO ADD WOMEN'S SPORTS; A.V. CAMPUS ACTING TO COMPLY WITH CIVIL-RIGHTS LAW.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. will add three women's sports over the next six years in its effort to settle a civil rights complaint that it was discriminating dis·crim·i·nat·ing adj. 1. a. Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions; perceptive. b. Showing careful judgment or fine taste: against female athletes. The new sports have not been determined, but likely will include soccer, officials said. The first program will begin in the 1999-2000 school year. ``The data - whether it's in the valley or statewide - indicate that (soccer) is a sport women are participating in,'' said Wanda Gallerson, dean of student development. The plan to add sports was included in a draft submitted for approval last month to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. ``We feel confident that we will meet with their approval on all areas,'' Gallerson said. The college also proposed annual surveys to assess the athletic interest and abilities of female students. The surveys would deal with sports offered in local high schools and in the Foothill Athletic Conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the collegiate or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. , and on programs conducted by the Palmdale and Lancaster recreation departments, records show. New female students also would be surveyed their first semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s at the college. As a condition of the settlement, college officials promised to build a $220,000 practice field for the 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' team. Initial plans for that facility will be considered Feb. 1. The college also will develop a system for monitoring how much is spent on each sport. And to ensure that men's and women's coaches receive the same treatment on scouting scouting: see Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts. scouting Activities of various national and worldwide organizations for youth aimed at developing character, citizenship, and individual skills. Scouting began when Robert S. and recruiting junkets, they will be reimbursed for meals and other expenses at the same rate the rest of the faculty get for work-related travel. Steps also will be taken to ensure that men and women athletes are treated similarly in terms of trophies, award banquets and team photographs. The settlement agreement came in August, three months after federal officials made a three-day visit to the college to investigate a complaint under Title IX, the 1972 civil rights statute that prohibits gender-based discrimination. The complaint accused the college of denying female students an equal opportunity to participate 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 a letter outlining their findings, civil rights investigators noted that no women's teams have been added to the athletic program in the past 10 years. Women's tennis, as well as men's tennis and golf, was dropped in 1994 for financial reasons. The investigation found that women are underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. in the intercollegiate athletics program when compared to their representation in the student body. In 1997-98, the full-time enrollment at the college was 5,082 - 39 percent were men and 61 percent were women. But men make up 67 percent of all intercollegiate athletes, the letter said. The college offers five sports for men - baseball, basketball, cross country, football and track - and five sports for women - basketball, cross country, softball, track and volleyball. FOLLOWING THE RULE Antelope Valley College proposed six steps to settle a complaint that it discriminates against female athletes. Add three women's sports over the next six years, beginning in 1999-2000. The sports were not named. Survey annually the sports offered in local high schools, the Foothill Athletic Conference and the Palmdale and Lancaster recreation departments, and survey incoming women students every semester to assess their athletic interests and ability. Develop a system for monitoring expenditures in the intercollegiate athletic program, including booster club A booster club is an organization that is formed to contribute money to an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. spending, fund raising and donations. Reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. coaches for recruiting expenditures at the same rate the rest of the college faculty is reimbursed for travel expenses. Reimburse coaches for scouting expenditures at the same rate the rest of the college faculty is reimbursed for travel expenses. Provide trophies, award banquets and other acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. equally to men and women athletes. Develop plans for a campus softball practice field. CAPTION(S): Box BOX: FOLLOWING THE RULES (See text) |
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