Post-Gazette.com
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Slippery Rock University must improve the women's softball field and provide additional funding for female athletics as part of a settlement filed yesterday in a Title IX lawsuit.
The original complaint, brought by 12 female student-athletes in 2006, was filed after Slippery Rock cut its women's swimming and water polo teams.
The case was settled in April 2007. However, in June, the plaintiffs filed a motion in federal court to reopen the case, alleging that the university had failed to follow through with the requirements of the settlement.
Among the complaints, the women athletes said that the university had failed to make the agreed-upon improvements to the softball field and failed to provide equitable coaching for women's track.Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09356/1022710-298.stm#ixzz0aVdDyPHd
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