Carol Tracy (left), executive director of the Women's Law Project and formerly director of the Penn Women's Center, talks with lacrosse players Alex Brill-Edwards (C '96) and Jaime Schemberg (C '98) and Peshe Kuriloff, (right) co-chair of Penn People for Women's Way and director of the Writing Across the University program.

At a reception in the Steinberg Conference Center on October 24, leaders of the Penn Women's Center and Penn People for Women's Way hailed the settlement as beneficial to both women athletes and the University. They urged attendees to direct their Penn's Way donor-option contributions to Women's Way, an umbrella organization that supports agencies like the Women's Law Project.

Dr. Kuriloff noted that Women's Way "affects us close to home," as the Title IX settlement demonstrated. Ms. Tracy, who headed the legal team that filed the suit, noted that Women's Way funding of the Women's Law Project helped bring about a settlement without protracted litigation. Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Steve Bilsky called the out-of-court settlement "a great agreement." Provost Stanley Chodorow noted, "We didn't need to hand this over to someone else. We did it ourselves, and it's going exactly in the direction we want to go."