This week the Daily Texan has been running a multi part series on
gender inequality because U of Texas is being sued by several women
athlete. As part of this series they ran the following AP story on COlgate
in today (8/12/93) paper. Taken without permission:
 
Colgate hit with discrination lawsuit
Associated Press
 
Syracuse, N.Y.--A second lawsuit has been filed against Colgate
Univeristy, charging the school with discriminating against women in its
athletic program.
        Five female athletes are suing Colgate in federal court to get the
school to elevate the women's ice hockey team to varsity status.
        Five other hockey players initially wom a similar case against the
school in September, but an appeals court in April threw out the decision,
saying the five women who filed the lawsuit could not benefit from a
court-ordered remedy because they had graduated.
        To avoid the same problem, the new case was filed as a
class-action suit, representing all curent and future female athletes at
the school.
        The lawsuit claims Colgate offers fewer opportunities for female
athletes than for males even thought females make up about half the
student body and the school treats its men's hockey team much better that
the women's team.
        It also says Colgate had made no effort to increase opportunities
for wome, denying five requests for a varsity hockey team.
        The women are asking the court to grant a varsity team pending a trial.
        Througout the first case, Colgate maintained its athletic program
was not in violation of Title IX.
 
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        Any typos in the above are mine.
 
David
 
P.S. I'm my the only one who notices a distrubing trend of athletes and
athletics in the court not on the ice/field/court where they belong?