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56 Creighton L. Rev. 341 (2022-2023)
Title IX and Catholic Colleges' Long March into Modernity

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    TITLE IX AND CATHOLIC COLLEGES'
       LONG MARCH INTO MODERNITY

                       PATRICIA MCGUIREt

    I. INTRODUCTION     ................................... 341
    II. DRIVERS  OF COEDUCATION: MONEY AND
       PRESTIGE   ......................................... 343
  III. COEDUCATION AND THE NEAR OCCASION
       OF SIN ............................................ 345
  IV.  THE  DAM  BURSTS:   THE  1960'S RUSH  TO
       COEDUCATION     .................................... 347
   V.  COEDUCATION'S TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECT
       ON  CATHOLIC   COLLEGES ........................     348
  VI.  CHANGING RULES, MOUNTING CONFUSION,
       AND  RESISTANCE.................................     350
  VII. WHAT   OF THE  CATHOLIC WOMEN'S
       COLLEGES?........................................    353

I. INTRODUCTION
    Sometime  in the winter of 1972, the basketball team from Trinity
College' in Washington, D.C. made the short journey to the Univer-
sity of Maryland in College Park, about six miles away. Trinity, one of
the oldest Catholic women's colleges in America, did not have a regu-
lar gymnasium;  instead, the basketball team practiced underneath
the campus chapel in a cramped space with low ceilings and a concrete
floor interspersed with pillars; to be out of bounds, a player had to put
one foot against the wall. Aim for the third tile, was the coach's di-
rection to players practicing foul shots.2
    Arriving on Maryland's  campus  for a game, Trinity's women
quickly saw that the Lady Terps3 did not have much better facilities.
The game took place in a cramped low-ceilinged shed along a dark side

    f Patricia McGuire has been president of Trinity Washington University since
1989. Previously she held positions at Georgetown University Law Center as the assis-
tant dean for Development and, earlier, director of the Street Law clinical program. She
earned her B.A. from Trinity in Political Science in 1974, and her J.D. from Georgetown
in 1977.
   1. Now Trinity Washington University.
   2. The author was a student at Trinity College and member of Trinity's basketball
team during the years 1971 to 1974. This account is from personal recollection of the
games at the University of Maryland in those years.
   3. The Diamondback Terrapin is the official Maryland state reptile and the mas-
cot of the University of Maryland. The university's sports teams are known as the Ter-
rapins or Terps. Maryland State Reptile - Diamondback Terrapin, MARYLAND MANUAL

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