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We've warned our readers many times about the danger that runaway Title IX enforcement poses to high school athletics. Earlier today, we got some news out of Pennsylvania that should send a chill up the spine of any parent who participates in a booster club for a high school sport—and what the College Sports Council believes is a deliberate misinterpret...
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The News Journal, a paper in Delaware, reported some additional details about the settlement the school reached this week with the members of its Equestrian team:
DSU officials, in a press release Friday, said they will "embrace" their obligation to provide increased opportunities for women in varsity sports. "DSU commits to achieving gender equity within ...
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All over the country, we see that the basic message about the damage gender quotas is doing to interscholastic athletics is getting out. However, fewer folks seem to understand that the reach of Title IX could very well be coming to a college major near you.
Here's a passage from an excellent opinion piece that appeared this morning in The Beacon, the ...
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Back in May 2009, we called attention to the fact that female soccer players in New York City were opposed to a plan to move girls high school soccer to the Fallso it could compete in the same season as boys soccer. The move was spurred as part of a settlement forced on the the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) by the New York Civil Liberties Union ...
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Over at Swimming World, Kevin Weissman, the parent of a college swimmer, is calling attention to the inequities that Title IX enforcement has created in college swimming:
The opportunity to participate also is not equitable. According to the NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report, for the 2008/2009 academic year, there were 510 women's ...
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couple of weeks back, we pointed to a Boston Globe story by John Powers on how budget pressures and Title IX compliance requirements were leading schools to eliminate a raft of men's athletic programs. This past Saturday, Powers was on WBUR-FM, National Public Radio's Boston affiliate, to talk about the issue in some detail with host Bill Littlefield on ...
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From CrossFit Marin:
While the loss of Cal’s men’s gymnastics team is a significant loss, the damage may be more severe as this plays out. At this point Cal is Stanford’s only competitor in California. So they will now have to travel out of state for EVERY away meet. This increases the cost of the men’s program at Stanford, and increases the ...
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For those of you following the effort to preserve varsity status for the men's rugby team at Cal, you might want to consult one of the following sources:
SaveCalVarsityRugby.com
Save Cal Varsity Rugby Facebook Page
Save Cal Rugby Twitter
For other news, California Golden Blogs has been doing some excellent work recently. Bookmark it.
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From the Daily Cal:
The federal law (Title IX), while admittedly imperfect, is out of both the state's and campus's control to be reformed, and the campus simply has to deal with it. But it is a shame that Title IX has morphed from a promotion of participation in women's sports to a mathematical formula for cutting men's teams.
The truth is getting out.
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The anger about the athletic cuts at UC-Berkeley, especially about the loss of varsity status for the men's rugby team, isn't abating. The following comes from an open letter from Nina Sasso, a Cal graduate, to the school's Athletic Director, Sandy Barbour. It was published in the student newspaper, The Daily Cal:
While a student at Cal, I spent a portion ...
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