As part of our research process in my writing class, we are to conduct a survey among our peers that will give us some insight about our topic. Sounds pretty easy right?

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It’s actually kinda hard. I’m really struggling with which questions to ask so that the survey results are actually helpful in my research about the history of women’s athletics at SCU.

So What Does the Survey Say?

In addition to the usual demographic information, this is what I’ve got so far.

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Source: Natalie Kennedy

These types of questions will give me a feel for people’s thoughts about women’s athletics, and just athletics in general, in the current age. But the problem is, I don’t really have anything to compare it to. I haven’t found any data (YET) that discusses the feelings of past SCU students about athletics.

Where Do I Go From Here?

To deal with the problem about not having comparable data from the 1970s, I could continue to sift through files in the archives and see if there are any newspaper articles, interviews, etc. But, if I don’t find anything there, isn’t that saying something too?

If no one was talking about the start of women’s sports and Title IX and gender equality, isn’t that significant too?