Iwas sitting at Askanase Hall, waiting for NDSU Theatre’s production of "Glory" to begin, when I happened to read Michael A. Ross’s opinion letter about women “ encroaching in men’s sports .”

Written by Tracey Power in 2018, the play was inspired by the true story of the Canadian Preston Rivulettes, a women’s hockey team formed in 1933 by four friends who set out to prove that hockey was not just a men’s sport.

Ross only appears to object to women assistant coaching or officiating football games, so would he be okay with women having their own “little ladies” hockey teams in 2025, or would he, too, ridicule them as “little hockey dolls,” as the Depression-era men do in Power’s play? His sexism is soon compounded by homophobia as Ross objects to the US military and Scouting America (for

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