Paula, I have a different opinion about cutting men's sports to achieve parity. A twenty-five-year record of failing to live up to the principles an educational institution should initiate on its own doesn't deserve sympathy as a conscientious effort. A college which isn't in Title IX compliance after a generation is a college which stands up and broadcasts that it can't operate responsibly unless forced to. The widespread prevalance of that condition is a distressing commentary on a social institution with such an important social role. I eagerly welcome the opportunity for Title IX to weaken men's sports. There's an opportunity here that goes beyond the basic (and very worthy) issue of equal athletic opportunities for men and women. The possibility that makes me drool is my hope that Title IX will reduce the influence on higher education of the testosterone-crazed chauvanists whose only attraction to an educational institution arises from sports. Now that we have liability laws so the bartender can no longer just send those clowns home in any condition, let's get the Joe Jock mentality back on a barstool where it belongs and out of the educational environment. If NO women wanted to attend college and therefore NO basis existed for a Title IX issue, I'd say we should force a few women into college just to create the issue. Ridding higher education of obnoxious sports fans and good-old-boy athletic administrations is too valuable a benefit to pass up and it's too bad if those women don't want to go to college, they should do it for their country. Some women will also need to step forward and start running athletic departments as programs that no longer discredit their institutions' claims as centers of academic learning. Men have had that chance. But before turning her attention to that, the first official act by a woman AD should be to get Pat Summit a salary higher than a mediocre men's coach. The woman's touch in athletic administration is long overdue, though it will probably take a hefty fist to start that process. When athletic departments are equally staffed from top to bottom, especially at the very top, we'll be far more likely to have programs which support the legitimate goals of higher education. Bob Griebel HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.