Deborah Slaner Larkin, an
advocate for Title IX and girl's participation in sports, will speak on “Why
Does Social Justice Take So Long? The Trials of Title IX” on Thursday, Oct. 17,
at 7 p.m. in Reamer Campus Center Auditorium at Union College.
Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is
sponsored by the Women's Studies program at Union.
Larkin served on the President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports from 1994 to 2002, where she chaired a national task force
on girls and minorities in sports. She is the author of a national research
study titled “On the Benefits of Sports and Physical Activity for Girls.” She
is also past executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation.
For more information, call 388-6423.