SPORTS MAIL.Byline: The Register-Guard The Register-Guard sports department welcomes letters on all sporting topics. Our length limit is 250 words. Writers are limited to one letter per calendar month. Letters must be signed with the writer's full name. Mail letters to: Sports Mail, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440-2188 Fax: 687-6674 E-mail: sportsletters@guardnet.com Title IX farce The University of Oregon'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 wants female students to lead their own fans' cheers because cheerleading The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. can be an independent sport. Will the Ducks' newly monikered "spirit team" serve as cheerleaders Notable cheerleaders
Since cheerleaders necessarily require an audience and since I can cheer exceptionally well, I expect Pat Kilkenny to offer me an academic scholarship for my watching, yelling, whistling and clapping skills. While male UO athletes aspire to aspire to verb aim for, desire, pursue, hope for, long for, crave, seek out, wish for, dream about, yearn for, hunger for, hanker after, be eager for, set your heart on, set your sights on, be ambitious for advance to professional teams, UO's future cheerleaders have no equivalent. They may aspire only to join a cute women's auxiliary supporting a male sports team. Kilkenny should offer female students more than sports lite. Pretense of gender equity designed to make gender equity appear burdensome and foolish is not what women need. The federal Office of Civil Rights should acknowledge the administrators' Title IX wink-wink by requiring them to abolish the athletics department. ARIEL FRIESNER Eugene Lose the mascot I've been to three Eugene Emeralds games this year, making the trip from the coast. I've enjoyed the quality of play and the intensity of these young Emeralds. But on July 28, I saw something that really troubled me. The mascot, Reggie, may have been funny to some with his antics, but I found his hijinks hi·jinks pl.n. Variant of high jinks. Noun 1. hijinks - noisy and mischievous merrymaking high jinks, high jinx, jinks jollification, merrymaking, conviviality - a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity vaguely salacious sa·la·cious adj. 1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. 2. Lustful; bawdy. [From Latin sal , and I'm no prude prude n. One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous. [French, short for prude femme, virtuous woman : Old French prude . Particularly tasteless was his taunting of the Volcanoes' first-base coach while the game was under way. Do we really need this pathetic farce of attempted humor? I think we are sufficiently entertained by the teams' play and the between-innings promotions. Lose the mascot! LAURENCE BURKE Reedsport |
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