The New York Times
By KATIE THOMAS
Published: July 16, 2011
Los Angeles Southwest College has a new athletic field house and football stadium, but almost no female athletes. Women make up more than two-thirds of students at this community college in the city’s South Central neighborhood, but less than a quarter of its athletes. The college’s decision to suspend the track team this year left women who wanted to play a sport with a single option: basketball.
Henry Washington, the college’s athletic director and head football coach, acknowledges that his program is most likely violating federal law by failing to offer enough roster spots to women.
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/sports/at-two-year-colleges-less-scrutiny-equals-less-athletic-equality.html?_r=1&hp
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