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To:      newsbytes@clarinet.com
From:    seidlaw@localnet.com
Subject: Women's Ice Hockey Team settles case against Colgate University
Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:54:48 -0500

Faith Seidenberg and Bonnie Strunk announce that they have settled a Title
IX lawsuit against Colgate University on behalf of the women's ice hockey
club team, resulting in the team being granted varsity status byt he
University.  This result has been reached after seven years of litigation.
The club had applied for varsity status four times since 1979, and began
litigation in federal court in 1990.  Final approval from the Federal
District Judge for the Northern District of New York is still pending.

Since the advent of Title IX in 1972, women have been challenging
universities across the United States to receive equal treatment.  While
women have always been active in sports, it is only now that women's team
sports are beginning to be nationally recognized and supported.  Women's ice
hockey will be introduced in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan.

Women's collegiate ice hockey has been designated as an "emerging sport" by
the NCAA.  There are over 20 colleges with varsity teams in women's ice
hockey, and over 45 colleges with club teams.  Colgate University will
continue to play in the ECAC Alliance.

For more information, please call Faith Seidenberg or Bonnie Strunk at
(315)422-0144.

Seidlaw

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