Two items from "The Nation's Newspaper" (their title, not mine):
 
1) In the "Gee, I'm Glad I Know that Now" box (bottom left corner of the front
   page of the Sports section) was this graphic courtesy of the NHL:
         No. of U. S. Collegiate hockey players drafted:
                1993- 17
                1994-  6
   According to the NHL, this is a new record low (previous- 7, 1969).
 
         I seem to remember there being more than 6 drafted, but I could be
         wrong.  The number still seemed awfully low, and the trend does not
         bode well for attracting players to college hockey with the idea of
         using it as a stepping stone to the NHL.
 
2)  Somewhat unrelated to college hockey, but a topic that comes up frequently
    on Hockey-L: gender equity.
 
       (Excerpts from McPaper article: Federal office gets tougher with Title
                                       IX)
                "In its June 22 review of [the Office of Civil Rights]'s
                 actions, The Chronicle of Higher Education found the number
                 of colleges that violated sex discrimination laws (including
                 Title IX) 'doubled from 1992 to 1993 to 44.'"
 
              (Article deals primarily with Fresno State and San Jose State
               and their efforts to comply with the OCR requests.  The last
               1 1/2 paragraphs I will give here.)
 
                "...Fresno State and San Jose State have signed corrective-
                 action plans that will take several years to implement but
                 allow little leeway.
                "The Fresno State plan runs 26 pages and is extremely detailed,
                 ranging from specifying that four courtesy cars must be
                 provided for women's assistant coaches in basketball, softball,                 and volleyball to exactly how much the school must budget for
                 recruiting expenses in those three sports during the 1994-95
                 season.  And although San Jose State was applauded for changes
                 already made, the agreement still spells out the amount the
                 school must spend on women's equipment and uniforms within
                 10%."
 
        This is what gender equity is going to bring us?  Giving courtesy cars
to assistant coaches?  Mandating how much a school spends on uniforms and
equipment?
        If someone can find the logic in all this, please explain it to me.
And make sure you use words that are no more than three syllables.  Right now
I'm too burned out on technicalities.
 
G. M. Finniss
Michigan State University
WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?
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