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Title: NCAA, Drexel try to tackle homophobia in sports
Post by: katia on November 09, 2007, 01:21:34 PM
NCAA, Drexel try to tackle homophobia in sports

The Triangle (http://media.www.thetriangle.org/media/storage/paper689/news/2007/11/09/Sports/Ncaa-Drexel.Try.To.Tackle.Homophobia.In.Sports-3090038.shtml)
By James Mason
11/9/2007

'The NCAA has made strides in educating its coaches and athletes on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual issues, but there is still room for the NCAA and the schools it governs to improve.

Currently, the NCAA sponsors an array of diversity education programs for all of its schools, which includes homophobia in sports. Charlotte Westerhaus is the Vice President of the NCAA's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which coordinates these diversity programs.'