The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 118, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 2005 Page: 4 of 14
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law.” But, in truth, as Eric
Pearson, executive director of
the College Sports Council, a
who’s interested in what, and
will provide easy evidence when
schools are challenged — their
first instinct won’t be to cut
teams for fear of lawsuits.
Marcia Greenberger of the
National Women’s Law Center,
however, calls the new guide-
lines “an underhanded way to
weaken Title IX and make it
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Tne new interest surveys are a
light shone on the often-confus-
ing controversy over Title IX,
many reformers believe. Jessica
Gavora predicts thaffeminists
“are afraid of what interest sur-
veys will show,” because they
know the surveys will show that
women are not underserved in
college athleticism. Surveys may
let the secret out: Brandi doesn’t
need to hurt Barrett to win a
World Cup.
the administration had sold out
to feminists who wanted a feder-
ally mandated, unfair crutch to
remain in place. Meanwhile,
women’s groups decried the
president anyway for minimally
diluting what, they said, women
want and need. Donna Lopiano,
the head of the Women’s Sport
Foundation, falsely claimed that
the commission was “stacked”
against women and argued that
the White House was “basically
trying to undo everything we’ve
accomplished in 30 years.”
This argument was nothing
new, in 1995, when now Speaker
of the House Dennis Hastert (a
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A 12 a.m. Sunday, daylight-saving time begins.
/W That’s right, it is time for the annual rite of
X jk“spring forward.” Don’t try to understand it,
just make the best of it.
The switch to and from daylight-saving time has
always had its critics. The notion, first suggested in
the United States by Benjamin Franklin but not
used nationwide until World Wars I and II, was to
save energy by taking an hour of light at die start of
the day, when most people are still in bed, and mov-
ing it to the end of die day, when most people are
awake.
Franklin put it this way: “Just as sunflowers turn
their head to catch every sunbeam, so too have we
discovered a simple way to get more from our sun.
We’ve learned to save energy by switching our
clocks an hour forward in the summer.”
Energy officials declare it works. They figure it
saves about 1 percent of the energy load each day
of daylight-saving time. Health and safety officials
also contend there’s slightly less crime and fewer
traffic fatalities during daylight-saving time, thanks
to more light in the evening.
For the most part, the general public seems to
appreciate daylight-saving time. It really does pro-
vide an extra hour of light at the best part of the day
for the bulk of the 8-to-5 crowd.
What people don’t like, and what doesn’t make
any sense, is switching back and forth.
If anyone has an explanation for why it’s neces-
sary to go back to Standard Time the last Saturday
of October, we’d like to hear it.
'" However, since no politician has made prolonging
daylight-saving time a campaign issue, it appears
the switching will continue.
So make the best of it. Use the time change as a
reminder to check the batteries on your smoke
alarms and as a reminder that every hour is valu-
able. And you only get an extra one the last
Saturday each October. Don’t waste it.
— The Baytown Sun
“to end discrimination against
women” has devolved into a
reality that is “causing discrimi-
nation against men.” Under a
later-added “proportionality”
mandate, if a school’s student
population is 60 percent women
and 40 percent men, the sports
programs have to reflect that
breakdown exactly — even if 60
percent of the female students
don’t want to play sports.
The fallout has hit men’s
sports hard. As of a 2001
General Accounting Office
audit, in the years since 1972,
over 170 men’s wrestling pro-
grams, 80 men’s tennis teams,
70 men’s gymnastics teams, and
45 men’s track teams have been
eliminated. At the same time,
women’s sports programs
increased nine fold.
In 1948, a public hearing on the Gulf Transit
Company’s request for an increase in fares has been
arranged in city hall. The company had asked for a
>ure banning cigarette advertising on fare increasefrom 10 to 13 cents for adults and 5 to 8
from women’s groups who feel
especially betrayed with a sista
doing the administration’s
reform work. Meanwhile,
Spellings is a new heroine to
cents for children, claiming that increased costs and
overall operation has caused it to lose more than
$12,000 in the eight months it has been operating.
In 2003, musician and Baytown native Chris Cagle
releases his second CD, a self-titled collection of 11
songs and the single, “What A Beautiful Day,” was
No. 11 on the Billboard charts and is the first track on
“Chris Cagle,” a Capitol Records release.
In 2004, the fictional race for “Mayor of Downtown
Baytown,” a short-lived fund-raising campaign for the
Baytown Downtown Association, was postponed to
keep the campaign from being a distraction to the
municipal election on May 15. The campaign
resumed later that year. In the campaign, candidates
would raise money to “buy” votes for the office of
mayor, with each vote costing $ 1. The winning candi-
date would have the most votes, or raise the most
money. Each candidate commits to raising at least
$500.
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T^or years, state and federal law has recognized
that doctors and other health professionals who
JL oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds
cannot be forced to participate in those procedures-or
be penalized for their refusal. But what about pharma-
cists who refuse to dispense birth control pills or
emergency contraceptives, saying that the effect of
such pills is equivalent to abortion?...
The American Pharmacists Association says phar-
macists can't be compelled to dispense a medication
to which they have moral objections. But the associa-
tion also says there must be an alternative system in
place to make sure the patient gets the drug the doctor
has prescribed....
To dwell on the intricacies of th? law is to lose sight
of a larger point. Turning customers away is bad for
business. ...
That's why it's in every pharmacy's best interests to
know when problems like these could arise and do its
best to avert them....
Pharmacists must be free to exercise their profes-
sionaljudgment. They provide an important check on
doctors, and are a valuable source of information for
patients. But there's another, arguably more important
relationship that could be violated here: doctor and
patient. It's easy to see how patients might find a
pharmacist's refusal to fill a prescription an unwar-
ranted intrusion into that relationship.
Good business practice dictates that employees'
moral qualms cannot be ignored. But in respecting
one set of concerns, pharmacy owners need to make
sure another doesn't get trampled.
— Chicago Tribune
Today is Friday, April 1, the 91 st day
.of 2005. There are 274 days left in the
year. This is April Fool’s Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 1,1945, American forces
invaded Okinawa during World War II.
On this date:
In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio, became the
first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a
regular salary.
In 1918, the Royal Air Force was
established in Britain.
In 1933, Nazi Germany be£an perse-
cuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-
owned businesses.
In 1946, tidal waves struck the
Hawaiian islands, resulting in more than
170 deaths.
In 1960, the first weather satellite,
TIROS-One, was launched from Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
In 1963, ntost of New York City’s
daily newspapers resumed publishing
while not perfect, “a viable,
common-sense alternative to the
gender quota that has wreaked
havoc on college athletics.”
For many advocates of Title
IX reform, the new guidelines
came as a surprise, if not a
shock. They’ve been burned
before. President Geotge W.
Bush set up a blue-ribbon com-
mission during his first term to
review the law and how it is
enforced. While the 15-member
commission leaned more to the
side of bean counters than
reformers, the members recom-
mended changes, which were,
for the most part, ignored by the
administration in 2003, when the (www.nationalreview.com). She
For women’s-sports advocates, issue was last was broached,
like National Women’s Law At the time, some argued that
You don’t have to be a
women’s soccer fan to remember
when Brandi Chastain was
everywhere, in her sports bra. It
was 1999 and she had just led
the US. women’s soccer team to
their World Cup victory, strip-
ping on the field in celebration.
Soon we were told she couldn’t
have done any of it without Title
IX.
While most of the ESPN
viewers may have stopped pay-
ing attention somewhere after
the bra close-up and the first
mention of education law, Title
IX is widely considered a "tri-
umph" among many women ath-
letes and women’s-sports advo-
cates. It’s the stuff of laudatory
Lifetime specials. As Welch
Suggs, an editor at “The
Chronicle of Higher Education”
describes it in his new book “A
Place on the Team,” (Princeton
University Press, 2005) the 1972
law “requires schools and col-
leges not to discriminate on the
basis of sex.” But the reality of
the law has been grim for male
County Pilots’
gala a success
On March 19, the West
Chambers County Pilot Club
hosted a dinner and auction to
raise funds for our many com-
munity projects. While the
event was very successful and a
great deal of fun, wecould not-
have done it without the support
we received from the communi-
ty. So many businesses and
individuals from Mont Belvieu,
Baytown, and beyond donated
items and/or purchased place-
mat ads to help. We were really
overwhelmed by the communi-
ty’s support. Thanks also go to
all who bought tickets for the
Rock ‘N’ Roll Gala and partici-
pated in the auctions. You made
sure we achieved our goal.
While our primary focus is
always on brain-related issues,
we were working this year to
raise money for the purchase of
specific playground equipment
for the special needs class at
Barbers Hill Primary.
Our members work very hard
each year on the gala, but all
our hard work.,would be useless
without the great support we
always receive from the com-
munity. You made it happen for
our club and its projects. Thank
you so much.
Wynona Montgomery
West Chambers Co. Pilot Club
Auction Chairman
The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.
Since last July my mother,
Jeanette Jenkins, has fought a
long and tough battle with can-
cer. As many of you have done,
we went to Houston first. The
traveling back and forth, some-
times daily, was extremely hard
on her. I write this letter to
advise the citizens, you no <
longer have to fight the free-
ways into Houston for cancer
treatments.
One of the newest medical
staff members in Baytown is
Dr. Kashif H. Ansari. Dr.
Ansari, is now considered a
member of pur family. We were
very impressed with his kind-
ness, his treatments, his brain
storming, his friendship... and
his endless positive thinking. „ .
Even after we had decided to
turn mother’s carg over to hos-
pice, Dr. Ansari came to her
home to visit with her, check on
her pain levels, make sugges-
tions to hospice nurses, and was
always generous with his warm
and heartfelt hugs. Dr. Ansari,
we thank you with all our
hearts.
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after a settlement was reached in a 114-
day strike.
In 1970, President Nixon signed a
measi
radio and television, to take effect after
Jan. 1,1971.
In 1983, tens of thousands of anti-
s nuclear demonstrators linked arms in a
14-mile human chain spanning three
defense installations in rural England.
In 1987, in his first major speech on
the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan
told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve
declared AIDS public health enemy
number one.”
In 2003, American troops entered a,
hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, and rescued
Army Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch,
who’d been held prisoner since her unit
was ambushed on March 23.
Ten years ago: United Nations peace-
keepers officially took over from the
U.S.-led multinational force in Haiti. ;
Center, Title IX has just entered
an early midlife crisis. On
March 18, the Department of
Education issued a “clarifica-
tion” on Title IX enforcement,
which will allow schools to use
interest surveys to gauge the
sports students want. The sur- ________________________
veys will help schools determine former high-school wrestling
coach) merely convened a con-
gressional hearing looking at
Title IX, Republicans werewili-
fied. Never again would \
Congress go there.
But U.S. Secretary for
Education Margaret Spellings
has jumped into this hoop of
controversy by becoming the
public face for these guidelines.
easy for schools that aren’t inter- Expect her to take a lot of heat
student athletes caught in its net. ested in providing equal oppor-
As Jessica Gavora tells in her
2002 book “Tilting the Playing
Field” (Encounter Press), the
mom-and-apple-pie type law
. crafted after the Civil Rights Act coalition of coaches, parents and folks like Jonathan Plante, who
athletes, points out, Title IX has in 2001 had his gymnastics team
just gotten a little of the wisdom at Michigan State cut. And to
that often comes with age. Beverly Brandon, whose son,
Pearson calls the new guidelines, Barrett, had his University of
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