Opinion ID: 194677
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Heading: The Regulations. DED's regulations begin by

Text: 1. The Regulations. detailing Title IX's application to college athletics.8 The regulations also recognize, however, that an athletic program may consist of gender-segregated teams as long as one of two conditions is met: either the sport in which the team competes is a contact sport or the institution offers comparable teams in the sport to both genders. See 34 C.F.R. 106.41(b). Finally, whether teams are segregated by sex or not, the school must provide gender-blind equality of opportunity to its student body. The regulations offer a non-exclusive compendium of ten factors which OCR will consider in assessing compliance with this mandate:
levels of competition effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of members of 8The regulations provide: No person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, be treated differently from another person or otherwise be discriminated against in any interscholastic, intercollegiate, club or intramural athletics offered by a recipient, and no recipient shall provide any such athletics separately on such basis. 34 C.F.R. 106.41(a) (1992). 13 both sexes;
supplies;
time;

academic tutoring;
coaches and tutors;
and competitive facilities;
facilities and services;
facilities and services; (10) Publicity. 34 C.F.R. 106.41(c) (1992).9 The district court rested its preliminary injunction on the first of these ten areas of inquiry: Brown's failure effectively to accommodate the interests and abilities of female students in the selection and level of sports. See Cohen, 809 F. Supp. at 994. Hence, this area is the most critical in terms of evaluating the charges against Brown (although it is also the most difficult to measure). 2. The Policy Interpretation. In the three years next