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Judge: Sports discriminatory PROVIDENCE, R I {API — Brown University dis criminates against female athlete* been use far few nr women (hen men pan if lipate in college sport*, a judge ruled Wednesday in n decision that could force schools nationwide to revamp athletic pro gram*. IJ.S l)i*trit,1 fudge Raymond Pet tine gave Brown 120 days to come up with a plan to comply with title IX. the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex dis crimination at schools that receive federal mon ^y Pettine* ruling came in a 1992 lawsuit filed by female athletes at the Ivy League school, who claimed Brown had violated the Title IX require mant that schools offer equal athletic opportunities to men and women. "At Brown, far more male athletes are being sup ported at the university-funded varsity level than are female athletes, and thus, women receive less benefits from their intercollegiate varsity program as a whole than do men," Pettine rules! University officials said they will appeal "This is a major victory for women across the country." said I.ynette labinger, lead attorney for the female athletes. "This ruling should serve as a wake-up call to universities around the country that they better start complying with the law or face a court order to do so." During the trial last December, Brown lawyer Walter Connolly had warned that if the school lost, universities across the country would be forced to cut men's athletic teams. In his ruling, Pettine said that was not no< es sarily so because there are several ways fur a school to meet Title IX. "It may eliminate the athlotii program altogeth er. it may elevate or t reate the requisite number of women'i positions, II may demote or eliminate lh«> requisite numtx'f of men's positions or it max implement a combination of these remedies." Pet linn wrols. Title IX requires a school to have a "substan tially proportionate" ratio of female to male ath lete*. expand it* athletics to meet woman's inter ests and abilities, and maintain a program that "ful ly and effw tivelv" meets the interest and abilities of female students Brown offers an equal number of men's and women's sports — 18 — but many more men than women participate One reason is that some teams are larger than others; the Brown football team, for example, has 128 slots for athletes while the largest women's team has only 50 The |udge noted that during the 194)1-94 acade mic year, there were 555 male athletes and M2 female athletes The percentage of female athletes was 38 percent that year, while women account ed for 51 pen*nt of the campus population "The gender balance of Brown's intercollegiate athletic program is far from substantially proper tionate to its student enrollment." Pettine *aui After Title IX took effect. Brown, like other schools, made efforts to liooxt athletic opportuni ties for women In 1991. during a round of university-wide bud get cuts. Brown eliminated funding for the women's volleyball and gymnastics team* Funding for the men's golf and water polo teams also was cut After the women sued. Pettine issued an injunc tion in 1992 ordering the school to restore fund ing for the two women’s teams Three days into the trial, the two sides announ* ed a partial settlement of the part of the suit claim ing male athletes at Brown get preferential treat ment. Sam Donaldson fires ranch hand AI.Hl iQl IF.KQt JE, N M. (AP) Ranch hand Gilbert Salas has a bad hark and a seventh-grade education. He’s living in n con verted storage shed, getting by on food stamps and his wife's $5-nn hour part-time job at a butane company. The last thing he needs is a debate with ABC-TV newsman Sam Donaldson. "lie's too good a talker for me to talk against, fie leaves presi dents speechless," Salas said in Spanish during an interview Wednesday from his home in Hondo, a village in rural south central New Mexico. The 53-year-old Salas believes he's been wronged by Donaldson, who fired hint in July from his job on the news man's 11,000-acre ranch, where he raises cattle, sheep and mohair goats. Salas, who has no health insur ance, said Donaldson paid some of his medical bills when he hurt his back throwing tires onto a pickup truck, then fired him when he presented a doctor's note saying he could do only light work "He told me I couldn't do the work anymore. I told him 1 was still under a doctor's care," Salas said. "He told me. T can't pay your doctor bills for the rest of your life.'" Donaldson said it’s unfair to SALE! Ski Equipment Downhill • Cross Country Snowboards ENDS SATURDAY BerqV /hi/hop 13th ft Lawrence • 683-1300 Open Mon - Sat 10-6 ...... __i paint him as a "hard-hearted" rancher, because his employees get better pa> and have better working conditions than most ranch workers. "I pay far above the minimum wage, and everyone is offered health insurance," Donaldson said. Donaldson said Salas, who worked at the ranch for 27 years. injured his iso k working for the previous owner, f’at Joyce Don aldson purchased the ranch in January lM2 "He wore a Jxm k time front the moment I mot him.” Donaldson said "Gilbert was 11 early in |wun a lot of the time. I am sorry about that All I can tell you is tie had the bad hack when wo hired him." mm mm » «»im •smm rmm mmm -zmwm snra ^mmmm CD1 *• A ms mm' MOVIE LANO AT *fr$T 1lih ,}42 4 1 4? ttO«» Sf NfCA ST STARTS FRIDAY New kit allows parents to detect kids’ drug use NKVV PROVIOKNCK. N | (AP) — Parents un check (heir children'* room* and belongings for drugs with a $20 kit that will provide them with confidential result* ('•ailed DrugAlert. the kit tan detect trace amount* of up to :(0 illicit substances, includ ing marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine. heroin. 12SO and W3’, according to its maker, Barringer Technologies Inc of New Providence, near Newark The kit contain* a moist pad that can lie wiped acrtwa ( loth ing. Inmks or furniture to pick up dmg residue The pad c an he mailiHt bat k to the manu facturer for laboratory analy sis "Anyone who has been in contact with illegal nan otii s will inadvertently acquire trit e amounts of the narcot it Stan Binder. Barringer's chairman and < hief exm utivo, said Wednesday "For instant o. a cot aine user will have trm es on his hands and clothing These trai es will find their wav to his < ar. his school lot ker and objects in bis room." Hut Binder cautioned that a positive test result dints not net essardv Indicate a i hild is a drug user Trat es could be left by another person or pi( ked up through innocent contact If Barringer detet ts drugs it mails the information b«i k to the parent with advice on what to do. Parents i an also gel the results by phone, with out revealing their names, by using a confidential code number. The testing process destroys the sample, so then* is no way it could let used as evidence in court, Hinder said Drug Alert was introduced this week by Barriger. which helps police and the FBI test for illegal narcotics and botnla* It is being sold by mail. One medical expert said Wednesday the device might lie beneficial, but a civil lib erties lawyer said he's con cerned that corporations could use the kit to spy on their workers Dr tarry DeMilio, of the (Carrier (clinic in Bcdlernoad, a psychiatric facility, acknowl edged that some people might feel that such devic es coulei poison parent-child relations itnt he said that if a child is using drugs, that Indicates there already is trouble in the relationship The bigger problem is par ents ignoring signs of drug use said DeMilio. medical dirts inr for c hild and adoles cent services at the Carrier Clinic "On halance, it's not n bad thing lie said if it's a choice between doing noth ing and doing this, I would much prefer seeing parents do this " Bruc e Marvin, staff attorney for the American Civil l.d)er ties Union of New Jersey, said fit' s worried that employers could buy the devic:e to ton due t sec ret drug tests on their workers “A master storyteller with u lot of heart.” —Me^ Cohen, lltirpers Knzaar !N«*h in hardcover! 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