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Article: TITLE IX HAS DONE MORE GOOD THAN HARM.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 5, 2003
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Byline: CLARENCE PAGE Syndicated columnist
WASHINGTON -- For one golden moment during a recent meeting of the president's advisory commission on Title IX, the 15-member panel on gender equity in school sports actually bumped into the central issue: money.
It was not whether female athletes in high school and college deserve to have as many athletic opportunities as their male counterparts do, although some hard-shelled troglodytes insist that they don't.
Nor is the core issue a question of whether female athletes want to have equal sports opportunities. Some Title IX critics continue to belabor the gap in male-female enthusiasm, but such ...