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Show INTERESTED? GENDER, SPORTS PAR-TICIWVTION AND TITLE IX Cristie Carter Bake (Peregrine Schwartz-Shea) Political Science University of Utah, 84112 Since its conception in 1972, Title IX has provided for a significant increase in the number of women participating in sports at the collegiate level. However, despite the progress that has been made, the participation of women in sports still lags behind that of men. In this analysis, I use qualitative interviews to gauge the attitudes of student athletes and non-athletes. The level of interest college students-men and women-have in sports is directly related to the opportu-nity they have as children to play sports, as well as influenced by conceptions of what sports are "masculine" or "femi-nine" (e.g. girls were more encouraged to participate in sports like gymnastics, cheerleading and dance rather than baseball or basketball). Finally, be-cause of the benefits of playing sports and the necessity to promote equality between the genders, I argue that the University of Utah, as a institution of high learning, has an affirmative duty to engage in interest building in athletics. TARGETED MUTAGENESIS BY HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION IN CAE-NORHABDITIS ELEGANS Aubrey C. Chan, M. Wayne Davis, (Erik M. Jorgensen), Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Homologous recombination (HR) is a potential method for targeted gene mu-tagenesis in C. elegans. The specificity in mutagenesis HR provides would be a novel and powerful tool for research-ers studying the molecular function of genes. I used a combination of the nu-clease I-Scel and a custom zinc-finger endonuclease to attempt to induce ho-mologous recombination in an unc-119 mutant worm to rescue the phenotype to wild-type. HR selection was based on locomotion defects caused by mutant unc-119 and over-expression of unc-70. Assays for enzymatic activity were nega-tive. Homologous recombination was not observed. Retesting the enzymes under conditions more favorable for ob-servation should yield positive results. Conducting the experiment in a mut-7 background to inhibit germline silencing or in a lig-4 background to inhibit non-homologous end-joining may increase the frequency of homologous recombi-nation. |