Re: 51% interview with Mitzi Witchger

kgalles@erols.com
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 23:55:44 -0500


Glad to read your post. I am working with parents in Michigan to
make girls' ice hockey a varsity sport there. We are trying to drum up
moral support from groups so that the state high school athletic
association takes our case seriously. MHSAA has been very anti-Title
IX. Anyone out there want to sign off on a press release favoring
gender equity in Michigan, including girls' ice hockey and revamping
seasons so that the girls play in the normal season? Kristen Galles,
Equity Legal. kgalles@erols.com

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Sheeran176 wrote:
>
> The show will be aired on the WAMC network on Thursday, March 19 at 8 pm The
> show will be re-broadcast on Wednesday, March 25 at 3 pm in the WAMC listening
> area.
>
> Other parts of NYstate/nation U.S will have to first see if 51% is covered by
> their
> local NPR affiliate and then what day and time it will be broadcast.
>
> Mitzi Witchger is a national recognized advocate for girls' ice hockey and
> Title IX. She is helping the effort in NYS to bring girls ice hockey to the
> Empire State Games AND to some of the 90+ public school districts that all
> ready offer boys ice hockey.
>
> How is your local school district doing? Do girls have an opportunity for a
> contact sport? They should if your school has boys' football. Do the
> cheerleader, a support activity, cheer at both the boys'and girls sport's
> event? How about home coming, are both male and female teams honored.
>
> Mitzi is a real dynamo for equity. Listen to the program and you may discover
> that you can be doing some advocacy in your own school district. That's the
> GOAL.
>
> Jane Sheeran
> NYS AAUW Director Ed/Equity
> sheeran176@aol.com


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