FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 8, 2005

CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119, lisa.lacher@drake.edu

DRAKE LECTURE TO FOCUS ON IMPACT OF TITLE IX ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS

The Drake University Honors Program will be hosting the Hawley Foundation Lecture on Monday, April 18, featuring a presentation and discussion of Title IX and its impact on collegiate athletics. Angela Lumpkin, a professor in the Department of Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kansas, will lead the presentation as a part of her three-day visit to Drake. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 25th Street and University Avenue.

The lecture, "Title IX: The 37 Words that Changed the Educational and Sports Worlds Forever," will offer an informational and innovative look into Title IX. The controversies and concerns surrounding Title IX will be discussed, including: the consequences on equality, the effects on male sports teams and the punishment for schools that do not comply.

"Title IX requires that girls and women in educational institutions have equitable access to sporting opportunities never dreamed of by their foremothers," said Lumpkin, who was also the coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1974 to 1977. "The heights to which they can now soar are boundless."

"The Honors Student Council selected Dr. Lumpkin in an effort to take a step outside the boundaries within which most previous speakers haven fallen," said Charlene Skidmore, assistant director of the Honors Program. "This is a topic that we feel will reach out to a large constituency and is very appropriate with Relays approaching."
For more information, call (515) 271-2999.

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