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BROWN UNIVERSITY RE-LEARNS TITLE IX LESSON: DON’T “RILE UP” THE AMY “COHENS OF THE WORLD”
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BROWN UNIVERSITY RE-LEARNS TITLE IX LESSON: DON’T “RILE UP” THE AMY “COHENS OF THE WORLD”

Cohen v. Brown University, which the First Circuit just referred to as “This landmark Title IX case,” started in April 1992, after the school stopped funding its varsity women’s gymnastics and volleyball teams. Eleven female athletes won precedent-setting rulings, preserved their teams, and forced Brown to comply with Title IX notwithstanding Brown violating the agreement in the open to “kill this pestilential thing.”

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