Wednesday, November 24, 1999 — Hovth Shore News - 49

—————-—— BRIGHT LiGHTs (jd5 —
Let wamen athletes knock them out, Students Say

Kristie Forbes, Alisen Phelss, and Lauren Ritchie

Contributing Writers

C'MON, we're approaching the millennium! Things are
changing? Women aren’t as limited as they used to be!

On Oct. 9, female boxer Margaret MacGregor and male boxer Loi Chow
duked it out at Mercer Arena in Seattle. MacGregor won all four ovo minute
rounds.

There are lots of exceptional women in the werld who could teke on a man
in sports and even win. We asked students and teachers, both male and female,
at Blueridge schoc!, whether men and women should play together in sports

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Twelve out of 62 people said no. The remaining 38% said they should def- BEST buddies: Luke Pearce (1-r), COHOG Festival velunteers Hilary with a little geometry
nitely be allowed. Thomas Woods, and Max Grass! Smith (-r), Kyla Brophy, and Lisa exploration between

This shows women have support on their side, but do they have cncugh? At show big gyins.

college evel in the United States,

men still get a toral of

$179,600,008 more than women

ia sports scholarships. If women

got the attention inen receive,

they too _ would get better in
rts!

Most people say men are
stronger, but not all men are cre-
ated equal. There is a great overlap
‘in’ strength and speed. Women
sometimes excel at long-distance
_ tunning, marathon swimming,
. and horse-racing, just to name a

few. ,
Some people would argue that
- ifwomen 2nd men played /sports
together, women would be a nui-
_sance;.nieeding their own chang-
ing room or possibly getting hurt.
“Smal! obstacles such as these can &
. be.overcome quite casily. As for
the possibility of getting hurt, well
-.there is’ that possibility for men
-t00.. Things ike this. should not.
= stop a woman from achieving her

= Women sould be treated the
same as men. They should get the
same haan of attention, respect
“and op; ty in sports. Women

Lombardo with their certificates. classes.

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BRETT Armstrong (Ir), Corrine. ARDEN Schiller is having the
Donohee and Chris Jones-Norris- most fun a kid could evor have ir
nave fun in math with thes tiles! class.

should ee je il byth their. skill and) SUSSA Nielsen and Meghan Best come out from behind

. Hot their gen er! ; the camera to pose for a snzp themselves.

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