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Brown, attorneys reach settlement in women's sports fight

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announced in May it would reduce women’s varsity fencing, golf, squash, skiing and equestrian teams to club status in an effort to streamline its athletic department and make remaining teams more competitive.Six men’s varsity sports were also cut, although track and cross country were later restored.

Brown said it would add co-ed and women’s varsity sailing teams to maintain gender balance.Public Justice and the ACLU of Rhode Island on June 29 filed a motion asking the federal court to enforce the 1998 agreement by restoring the women’s sports and finding the university in contempt.

The 1998 agreement had stemmed from a legal challenge to Brown’s decision to cut women’s gymnastics and volleyball in the eary 1990s.

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