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| Our Perspective
... Senator challenge: Be productive, successful |
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With
a late start this year due to a delayed academic calendar, Student
Government Association (SGA) senate starts tonight with only five
open seats, according to the latest senate seat report.
Congratulations to those who were selected to
represent their constituency. Your job has only begun—being
elected was not the end of the hard work.
Those who voted for you will be looking to you
in the weeks to come for action on the senate floor. You will represent
their needs and wants—how will you accept this challenge?
Bringing your job to a halt after election voids
the trust of your constituents. Don’t stop where you are—keep
going, your constituents are counting on such action.
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| Mens sports suffer under Title IX
legislation |
Chris Bohle
Business Affairs Beat
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Thirty
years after the infamous sports legislation known as Title IX was
enacted, someone has finally gathered up the courage to investigate
the law and see just how equitable it is.
Developed in 1972 by two democratic members of
Congress (a man and a woman), Title IX was enacted in order to provide
equal opportunity to women in collegiate sports.
In that respect, it has been more than successful, dramatically
increasing the number of women in college athletics, as well as
the amount of money available for their programs.
As the years have passed, however, the law has
become a bit of a hassle for collegiate athletic departments all
over the country. The main instigator of the problem is known as
the “three-part test.”
According to the three-part test, colleges had
three options for showing that they had complied with the law, but
basically it just went by the first of the three rules, which was
having the same proportion of women on sports teams as there were
female undergraduates.
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| Homefront dissention: A matter of
safety? |
Andy Ferguson
Academic Affairs Beat
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In the
United States, we stand on the edge of a war that may bring disunity
to our nation.
It is quite possible that we will soon be at war
with Iraq and once again attempt to defeat our old enemy, Saddam
Hussein.
While I watch the news and listen to the conversations
of my peers about this controversial subject, I wonder what the
greatest threat to our nation really is. Is it a war with Iraq,
or is it the idea of a growing disunity in the “United”
States?
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