Harvard's bad choice

Harvard University caved in to the demands of several Muslim women who wanted gym time just for women. The gym, one of the lessor used gyms on campus, will be closed several times a week so that women can exercise without their traditional religious outfits without feeling uncomfortable that men might watch them. While I am all for religious practices, there is a key issue when the religious rights of a few are used to diminish the rights of others. What would happen if these students then complained that they did not want to workout with Jewish women or African American women because they make them feel uncomfortable. Harvard has opened the door to significant criticism, and a large majority of the criticism is from women who feel the rule against men is sexist.
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Illegal contact for kids

A recent study published in the February issue of Injury Prevention highlighted that 98,000 injuries to high school athletes from 2005-2007 were directly related to actions that can be considered illegal or against the rules of the game. This represents 6.4% of all high school sport injuries and means that officials need to clamp down on such inappropriate conduct. The highest rate of these injuries occurred in girl's basketball, girl's soccer, and then boy's soccer. The largest percentage of these injuries occurred to the head/face.
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