All I have to say is that Rene Portland is crazy. It is disgusting and appalling to see what she was doing with the women's basketball program and how she was so homophobic and anti-lesbian. She had no right to tell any of those girls who they could or could not be, that should be up to them.
Like someone had mentioned in class, it is crazy to see that she never won a national title, and yet she could still run the program and be that much of a horrible person. What's also disturbing is how she wasn't winning and the athletic officials at the school even knew that this discrimination was going on. It's sickening knowing that their excuse for not changing this or punishing Portland for this discrimination was because it was not technically in the rules that they could't discriminate against homosexuality. One would think that it wouldn't matter if it was in the rules or not, because it is a case of being humane and treating these athletes who have worked so hard with respect. I had never known how much of a problem homophobia is within the collegiate sports arena, it is truly shameful. They need to let these athletes be who the want to be, and focus on their athletic ability and not their sexual orientation.
Jenna Todd kin 338I.S6
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