During the Clinton years, the Department of Education began to interpret the gender-equity Title IX law to impose quotas on college and high-school sports teams--resulting in the elimination of many men's teams.* During the Clinton years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Department of Education began to interpret the gender-equity Title IX law to impose quotas on college and high-school sports teams--resulting in the elimination of many men's teams. In 2003, the Bush administration threw the game to the feminists, refusing to reform the Clinton-era guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. . But it has finally moved to rectify rec·ti·fy v. 1. To set right; correct. 2. To refine or purify, especially by distillation. the problem. New rules will allow schools to use surveys to gauge which sports students want to participate in. The surveys will provide easily available evidence when a school is challenged about its lack of women's wrestling wrestling, sport in which two unarmed opponents grapple with one another. The object is to secure a fall, i.e., cause the opponent to lose balance and fall to the floor, and ultimately to pin the supine opponent's shoulders to the floor, through the use of body , for instance--giving college administrators an option other than killing the men's team for fear of legal headaches. Good. Now let's hope feminists don't force a do-over. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion