The third in the Spectrum Center's 40th Anniversary film series sponsored by the Spectrum Center and UUAP.

Join Dr. Sue Rankin for a screening of and discussion about the film, Training Rules:


Women’s basketball coach Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years at Pennsylvania State University: no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes who were thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. The film follows the lawsuit filed in 2006 against Portland and Penn State by student athlete Jennifer Harris. This high profile case ignited the world of women’s collegiate sports. It inspired the discussions so sorely needed to end discrimination based on sexual orientation that pervades all organized sport.

Dr. Rankin, former Penn State softball coach, has tirelessly fought homophobia at Penn State for over 30 years. We will hear her insight as one Penn State coach who tried to put an end to Rene Portland’s treatment of her players, and whose activism contributed to passing the 1992 inclusion of sexual orientation into Penn State's non-discrimination policy.