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December 14, 2011 • Lowry High School • Winnemucca, NV Kayla Doyle Betsy Guerrero Julia Dufurrena Alyssa Dendary Shannon McLellan Ere Higbee Angie Herrera Taylor Johnson Madi Gonzalez ’s Jou Bowl Predictions Winter sports are underway sie rn es a NIAA Re- J l alignment December 14, 2011, Page 2 news The Brand, Lowry High School Title IX: Where would she be without it? By Brandon Eastman participate in sports as much ...student-athletes lthough some people may not even as boys; and should not be used as a know what Title IX is, in the eyes 2) It was not a statistic...” Aof some of those that do know what requirement, “ ~Melanie Vance it is; it shouldn’t even exist. at the time, to According to senior Melanie Vance, provide equal “Male and female student-athletes should not be used opportunities for women. The problem is that propor- as a statistic in order to make the lawmakers happy.” tionality is the only “safe-harbor” standard to avoid further investigation by the Office of Civil Rights. (www.examiner.com) At Lowry, 41% of the student population plays at least one sport, although, many of these student-ath- letes participate in multiple sports. This is approxi- mately 370 student-athletes at Lowry. Of those 370 Janet Quilici (34) puts up a shot in 1986./Courtesy • Win- nada athletes, approximately 53% of them are boys, while 47% of them are girls. If you include football and in these two sports by females is very rare, if at all, wrestling as sports in which girls are allowed to par- which is why these two sports should not count as ticipate, then Lowry does offer equal opportunities. creating, ‘equal opportunity’. You could also include Lowry offers seven girls sports (basketball, cross girl’s high school volleyball, in which boys are not country, golf, soccer, softball, track and field, and allowed to compete. volleyball) and eight boys sports (baseball, basket- “I still ball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, track and think that a There should definitely Sydney Sundahl./Justin Albright • The Brand field, and wrestling). The major problem with Title lot of girls still just aren’t tak- be equality.” IX is that, in some schools such as Lowry, girls are ~Nikki Bengochea Title IX is a law that was passed in 1972 that allowed to wrestle and play football, but the boys are ing advantage “ would require gender equality in all educational areas not allowed to participate in any of the girls sports… of the oppor- that would receive federal funding. The law applies Are we really in compliance with the law? tunities avail- to ten different areas of education, including: higher “Technically, girls are allowed to wrestle and play able to them,” said Vance. “You see a lot of the same education, career education, education for pregnant football, but I don’t think they really count as part of girls playing all the sports, while for the boys you see and parenting students, employment, learning envi- Title IX,” said Bengochea. a variety of people.” ronment, math and science, sexual harassment, stan- Since Title IX was passed nearly forty years “I don’t think it should even be a law. It should be dardized testing, technology, and athletics. In order ago, opportunities for women have increased dra- based on participation,” said senior Taylor Johnson. to be in compliance with Title IX, your school must matically at all different levels of competition, rang- “If one gender isn’t going to participate, then why meet three criteria: 1) The institution’s ratio of male ing from high school sports to the Olympics. High students to female students is similar to male athletes schools have opened up more opportunities for girls SEE TITLE IX PAGE 4 to female athletes (the proportionality test), 2) The to participate in sports, institution shows a “history and continuing practice” and new women’s pro- FACTS of expanding women’s athletic opportunities, and 3) fessional leagues have The institution shows that it has “fully and effective- developed in the United *41% of the students at ly” met the athletic abilities and interests of women. States allowing female “There should definitely be equality,” said Lowry athletes to continue their Lowry are also athletes. graduate Nikki Bengo- activities. Leagues such *53% of athletes at Lowry chea. as the Women’s National are boys. Before this law was Basketball Association *47% of athletes at Lowry passed only one out (WNBA) and the Nation- are girls. of twenty-seven girls al Pro Fastpitch (NPF) *Before Title IX, only 1 out of played a sport. The pri- have provided women in mary physical activity the U.S. with opportuni- 27 girls played a sport. for girls was cheerlead- ties equal to their male *2.9 million high school girl ing and square-danc- counterparts. athletes vs. 4.2 million high ing, and girls could not Two sports, howev- school boy athletes. receive scholarships to er, that have not made a *205,000 female collegiate play collegiate athlet- breakthrough in includ- ics. This was simply be- ing females are: wrestling athletes vs. 290,000 males JV volleyball players./Bran- and football. Participation Carli Evatz works the Lady Bucks offense • collegiate athletes. cause: 1) Girls did not Courtesy of Winnada don Eastman • The Brand The Brand, Lowry High School news December 14, 2011, Page 3 2011 news in review raculously survived the shooting. Perhaps the most By Justin Albright upsetting story of this was that an innocent nine year old girl was caught in the line of fire, dying at a very he year 2011 was without a doubt young age. Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/ a very interesting year. There were many tragedies and many successes T US missile strike kills Illyas Kashmiri. Illyas was the for not only the United States, but for the world. Here are the top news stories of the top al Qaeda leader as the United States took out two year. major opponents in the fight against terrorism. Kash- miri was a major threat in terrorism and this death helps out against this on-going battle. Source: http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/ Chief Yeoman Mike Shea, assigned to the Virginia-class at- tack submarine USS Missouri, helps a crane operator move a The I-Hop Massacre. On September 6, a gun- wrecked vehicle during tornado clean-up efforts in Joplin, Mo./ man entered an I- Hop in Carson City and opened Courtesy • U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Ryan Sullivan/Released fire. Eight people were injured and four people were killed in the shooting. Nothing like this has ever hap- The Joplin tornado. On June 23, Joplin, Missouri pened in Carson City and it was a shock to all Ne- was hit by an EF5 tornado causing mass destruction. vadans. The four people that were killed were in the The tornado that hit Joplin was recorded as he eighth army, which led to the National Guard to assist in the worst tornado in US history, the tornado caused 122 investigation. The gunman ended up killing himself Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden for Daily Pakistan in deaths and 750 injuries, the tornado caused damage on sight so the police were unable to arrest him and 1997. Behind them on the wall is an AKS-74U carbine./Courtesy to the hospital which made it hard for doctors to atend • Hamid Mir find out his motive. Source: http://www.lahontanval- to their patients. The tornados winds reached an as- leynews.com/ tonishing 200 mph virtually destroying everything in The death of Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden was its path. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/ the biggest terrorist threat in the world and on May 1, The Nevada Air Race tragedy. On September 16, an airplane flew into a grandstand at the Reno Air seal team six snuck into his compound in Abbottabad, The Casey Anthony case. On July 5, Casey An- Races injuring and killing multiple people. The Pilot, Pakistan and not only killed Bin Laden, but killed ev- thony was found not guilty on charges of killing her Jimmy Leeward, was also killed in the crash that dev- eryone in the compound. Bin Laden was disposed of daughter, three year old Caylee Anthony. This trial astated the state of Nevada. An investigation into the somewhere in the ocean to make sure that al Qaeda became world news as Casey Anthony was found crash determined that a mechanical failure caused the couldn’t receive the body. The death of Bin Laden partying as her daughter was reported missing. Many devastating wreck. Source: http://abcnews.go.com/ definitely helped everyone in the world sleep a little people believed that Anthony had murdered her bit better at night. Source: http://abcnews.go.com/ daughter which is why many people were furious The Caughlin Fire. On November 18, a fire start- when the jury found her not guilty. Source: http:// ed in the middle of the night in southwest Reno in the The Japan earthquake. On March 11, Japan was en.wikipedia.org/ hit with a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that affected middle of the night. The fire burned a total of 1,935 acres and fortunately, there was only one death. That everyone. 15,828 people were killed by this earth- President Obama calls for US troops to leave Iraq. death was a man that tried to quake which was easily one of the biggest tragedies in On October 21, President Obama called a withdrawal save his neighbors, but he suf- Japan history. To make matters worse, the earthquake for US troops to leave Iraq, ending a nine year war.

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