another thing she mentioned is that her school right now does not have either a womens wrestling or football team so they have her playing with the boys. isnt this something that is covered by title 9? its been years since ive looked this up but i thought public schools couldnt have a sport for males if they didnt offer a similar sport for females or at least the option for the sport?
"If you build it they MIGHT come ..."
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 04:10:49 PM
my understanding of sports teams in high school, is that if there is not the same sport available for females, the school is required to allow qualifed females onto the male team. makes sense to me, cause lets face it....how many high school girls in one school play football or want to wrestle? cant see having enough girls in one school to even make up a team of this sort, let alone a sufficient number of other schools having teams to allow for games or competitions.
-- Edited by My Turn on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 03:22:15 AM
Arizona State University has been booming for decades here -- dorms and parking lots, mostly. The house in which I grew up, from which you used to be able to see the Superstition Mountains on a clear day (and they were ALL clear days, back then) is now practically surrounded by seven story dorms which have sprung up all over the outskirts of the university in the last five years or less. Sunlight barely graces the front yard of the house now. Question now, is... who's going to LIVE in those dorms, now that they're built? Who can afford college these days? These dorms were in the process of being built before the big economic collapse, of course, so on one hand, we now have these towering sun-blocking concrete and metal structures which will, of course, increase the heat in an already hot town, but at the same time, the university is drastically cutting back on staff and buildings used, with some campuses completely eliminated.
today while at the gym i was chatting in the sauna to the cute lil football/ wrestler girl. she had been accepted by asu for the fall but no scholarship was offered so her choice was to go elsewhere where one was. two of the best assests of any university are a crackerjack financial aid dept and someone who thinks outside the box to attract students while keeping standards and quality high and ratios low. without those you lose a lot of students.
that aside i was worried about that young woman sitting in the sauna with her sweats on hood up and she was in it when i went into the pool and in it when i got out of the pool 50 min later. trapped in a sauna with a cute athletic young woman and all i could think of was telling her that she should watch for dehydration and to be very careful. sigh. really, she was doing this to lose weight. weigh ins happen in her sport. this seems a particularly horrid thing to be doing to herself and i found myself moving in turns into professional helper, nagging mother, and concerned U employee making a note to make sure this stuff isnt happening at the u. sports are wonderful things for women and scholarships for women athletes are even more wonderful but risking health to get one is foolish. another thing she mentioned is that her school right now does not have either a womens wrestling or football team so they have her playing with the boys. isnt this something that is covered by title 9? its been years since ive looked this up but i thought public schools couldnt have a sport for males if they didnt offer a similar sport for females or at least the option for the sport?
"If you build it they MIGHT come ..."
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 04:10:49 PM
in Japan imprisonment rates are low and offenders who confess their crimes and express a desire to reform are generally trusted to do so by the judiciary and the public."
i wonder if this has to do with the saving face aspect of being caught which may be more of a punishment for people than prison?
Interesting review of a new study that's coming out soon which shows that economies where there is less division between the rich and the poor, everyone is better off, as far as mental, physical, and for lack of a better word, "spiritual" health: these countries have lower rates of obesity, crime, mental illness, and a host of other things. The article may be found at:
"The different social problems that stem from income inequality often, Wilkinson and Pickett show, form circuits or spirals. Babies born to teenage mothers are at greater risk, as they grow up, of educational failure, juvenile crime, and becoming teenage parents themselves. In societies with greater income inequality, more people are sent to prison, and less is spent on education and welfare. In Britain the prison population has doubled since 1990; in America it has quadrupled since the late 1970s. American states with a wide gap between rich and poor are likelier to retain the death penalty, and to hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In California in 2004, there were 360 people serving life sentences for shoplifting. California has built only one new college since 1984, but 21 new prisons. Whereas societies with high income differentials are exceptionally punitive, in Japan imprisonment rates are low and offenders who confess their crimes and express a desire to reform are generally trusted to do so by the judiciary and the public."
this sentence in particular strikes me. I remember reading .. somewhere ... and I'm paraphrasing ... A civilizations achievements and position in history can be ascertained by what, and for whom, they build.
Yep. And what endures of their Art -- the first thing to go, in a failing economy.
Arizona State University has been booming for decades here -- dorms and parking lots, mostly. The house in which I grew up, from which you used to be able to see the Superstition Mountains on a clear day (and they were ALL clear days, back then) is now practically surrounded by seven story dorms which have sprung up all over the outskirts of the university in the last five years or less. Sunlight barely graces the front yard of the house now. Question now, is... who's going to LIVE in those dorms, now that they're built? Who can afford college these days? These dorms were in the process of being built before the big economic collapse, of course, so on one hand, we now have these towering sun-blocking concrete and metal structures which will, of course, increase the heat in an already hot town, but at the same time, the university is drastically cutting back on staff and buildings used, with some campuses completely eliminated.
"If you build it they MIGHT come ..."
-- Edited by Nightowlhoot3 on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 04:10:49 PM
Interesting review of a new study that's coming out soon which shows that economies where there is less division between the rich and the poor, everyone is better off, as far as mental, physical, and for lack of a better word, "spiritual" health: these countries have lower rates of obesity, crime, mental illness, and a host of other things. The article may be found at:
"The different social problems that stem from income inequality often, Wilkinson and Pickett show, form circuits or spirals. Babies born to teenage mothers are at greater risk, as they grow up, of educational failure, juvenile crime, and becoming teenage parents themselves. In societies with greater income inequality, more people are sent to prison, and less is spent on education and welfare. In Britain the prison population has doubled since 1990; in America it has quadrupled since the late 1970s. American states with a wide gap between rich and poor are likelier to retain the death penalty, and to hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In California in 2004, there were 360 people serving life sentences for shoplifting. California has built only one new college since 1984, but 21 new prisons. Whereas societies with high income differentials are exceptionally punitive, in Japan imprisonment rates are low and offenders who confess their crimes and express a desire to reform are generally trusted to do so by the judiciary and the public."
this sentence in particular strikes me. I remember reading .. somewhere ... and I'm paraphrasing ... A civilizations achievements and position in history can be ascertained by what, and for whom, they build.
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Interesting review of a new study that's coming out soon which shows that economies where there is less division between the rich and the poor, everyone is better off, as far as mental, physical, and for lack of a better word, "spiritual" health: these countries have lower rates of obesity, crime, mental illness, and a host of other things. The article may be found at:
"The different social problems that stem from income inequality often, Wilkinson and Pickett show, form circuits or spirals. Babies born to teenage mothers are at greater risk, as they grow up, of educational failure, juvenile crime, and becoming teenage parents themselves. In societies with greater income inequality, more people are sent to prison, and less is spent on education and welfare. In Britain the prison population has doubled since 1990; in America it has quadrupled since the late 1970s. American states with a wide gap between rich and poor are likelier to retain the death penalty, and to hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In California in 2004, there were 360 people serving life sentences for shoplifting. California has built only one new college since 1984, but 21 new prisons. Whereas societies with high income differentials are exceptionally punitive, in Japan imprisonment rates are low and offenders who confess their crimes and express a desire to reform are generally trusted to do so by the judiciary and the public."
