Equal Opportunity: World's Only All-female Corps of Cadets
Amanda Bennett, Nicole Littlejohn, and Mei-Ling Fye
Title IX became law in 1970, helping to create a process for dismantling sex discrimination in higher education. In response to a lawsuit against the Virginia Military Institute's (VMI) single-sex policy, the Virginia's Women's Institute for Leadership (VWIL) was started in 1995 at Mary Baldwin College, as an alternative to the VMI for women students. The Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership has proven to be much more than an alternative. Although the VMI was forced to admit women in 1996, VWIL still exists and has grown to become a place where women challenge themselves and gain valuable skills. Senior Amanda Bennett, junior Nicole Littlejohn, and sophomore Mei-Ling Fye all speak about the leadership skills and military training they have gained through the program.

Title IX is about Choices, Susan Bassett
Title IX is the law that helped to make athletic programs for women a reality, like the one Susan Bassett runs. "While Title IX is a law," Bassett says, "gender equity is still an aspiration." In spite of a mandate for educational institutions receiving federal dollars to provide equal opportunity to their women students, Title IX in athletics has always come under fire, and since Secretary of Education Paige's appointment of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics in June 2002, the heat has been turned high.