Sue Sattel wrote:
>
> In Gebser vs. Lago Vista ISD, currently being argued before the
> Supreme Court, the paper today reports that Wallace Jefferson,
> arguing for the school district argued that the districts would
> be exposed to limitless punitive damages for unauthorized criminal
> acts of teachers - and then our paper goes on to say "Largo Vista,
> with a budget of $1.6 million, received $120,000 in Title IX money in 1992
> when the student-teacher affair took place. What is Title IX money?
> Does anyone know? Do they mean even the 1 cent of federal dollars
> that a school district receives which then requires their adherence
> to Title IX? sue.sattel@inet.state.mn.us
>
> _______________________ Reply Separator _______________________
>
> Subject: Title IX gathers momentum
> Author: edequity@tristram.edc.org at internet
> Date: 3/19/98 7:19 PM
>
> Thanks, Robert; The article you refer to is biased as all get out, but
> the general information is accurate. Let's be clear: I support
> affirmative action for women, as wellas for minorities, because white
> men have always had it; whenever there are scarce resources, there will
> be competition for them, and it is not fair for men to get the first
> shot at all the good jobs. We have been asking the OCR (headed by Norma
> Cantu) for years to begin taking federal funds away from noncomplying
> schools and send continued noncompliance cases to the Department of
> Justice. And yes, it's high time Title IX was used for more than
> sports; and just to be clear, I do indeed feel men should head into the
> domestic arts as fast as possible. Women who are admitted into better
> paying jobs are not going to be weeping over the loss of semislave jobs
> to men. Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates <lpurring@earthlink.net>
>
> ___________________________________
> Robert Weverka wrote:
> >
> > Dear Linda,
> >
> > I thought you might be interested in this.
> > http://www.iwf.org/article.cfm?ID=159&TO=0
> > It is an anti-Title IX article, so you might want to skip the editorializing
> > that the author does, but it also has some interesting information about the
> > Clinton Administration's efforts to broaden the application of Title IX
beyond
> > sports in our colleges.
> > The author claims that the gender equity enforcement in sports
scholarships
> > may be opened up to include efforts by the justice dept. to enforce gender
> > equity accross the board in all parts of education.
> >
> > Just a heads up,
> > Please let me know if you find anything further on this topic.
> >
> > -Robert Weverka <weverka@optivision.com>