Title IX was awesome.  While at summer school in the midwest I happened to see the Sports Illustrated articles on it in the library.  It was so interesting to me, as a PE major, I copied the information.   A few months later I needed whirlpool therapy for a badly sprained knee and was told that I could not use the whirlpools in the men's locker room, even tho they had three and the women's locker room had none.  After going up the food chain in both the women's and men's athletic departments, I finally told the head resident in our dorm that I had the address of the HEW, I knew the university was planning a huge new athletic complex using federal funds and if I didn't get in, I would write to them and they would lose all their federal funding.  I got in the next day.  I don't even recall seeing in the article that our own Patsy Mink was the author of Title IX, but this opened many doors for women that had previously been slammed shut. What a visionary.  Mahalo nui, Patsy Mink.