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Title IX gets little sympathy from me as I see college baseball and wrestling programs disappear across the country. I think it has served its purpose, but that revenue generating sports that break even or profit (men's football and basketball at most major universities - and even women's baseketball at places like Tennessee and UCONN) should be exempt from the counts. In my opinion, that would be a fairer measure of how an institution funds opportunities.
Counting men as women, women as men? Sounds like the Russian Olympic teams.
Some US Office of Civil Rights bureaucrat can probably explain to me why they assume there must be proportionality in sports participation between genders in college.
If it is discrimination for a college with 57% women to have "only" 49% of their athletes be female, why is it not discrimination to for that same college to have a student body made up of 57% women in the first place?
The colleges in this article are just doing what they can to comply with idiotic arbitrary rules dreamed up by nitwits in the federal government.
If it is discrimination for a college with 57% women to have "only" 49% of their athletes be female, why is it not discrimination to for that same college to have a student body made up of 57% women in the first place?
The colleges in this article are just doing what they can to comply with idiotic arbitrary rules dreamed up by nitwits in the federal government.
quote:Originally posted by biggerpapi:
Counting men as women, women as men? Sounds like the Russian Olympic teams.
Lol.
The concept was good when it was originally put into place. It has just gone too far in the other direction. I don't think the original intent was to eliminate sports that have been in place at schools for over a hundred years. That is what is occurring.
What percentage of women want to play a college sport? How does that compare to the men?
Let's face it, along with the legitimate athletes there are women who are going through the motions of playing a sport they aren't that interested in so that they can get a scholarship. Wouldn't they be better off with a scholarship that allows them to focus purely on academics?
Why isn't parity in scholarships rather than parity in sports scholarships the goal? Do women get their fair share of scholarships overall? Do men get their "fair" share of scholarships overall or do women outperform the men academically thereby getting more scholarships overall?
What do they do at the Ivies?
Let's face it, along with the legitimate athletes there are women who are going through the motions of playing a sport they aren't that interested in so that they can get a scholarship. Wouldn't they be better off with a scholarship that allows them to focus purely on academics?
Why isn't parity in scholarships rather than parity in sports scholarships the goal? Do women get their fair share of scholarships overall? Do men get their "fair" share of scholarships overall or do women outperform the men academically thereby getting more scholarships overall?
What do they do at the Ivies?
quote:Originally posted by PA Dino:quote:No person in the United States shall, on the basis of s ex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
-- From the preamble to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
quote:Counting men as women, women as men?
Now that sounds like it's the very absence of discrimination! Leave it up to the NCAA to be offended by the spirit of their own rule. Why don't we just count units? We're all equal right?