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Over the past few weeks, I have to admit that I've been more than a little vexed over the controversy concerning competitive cheer and Title IX. I feel that way because there's an elephant in the room that the opponents of competitive cheer are either working to obscure or just refuse to acknowledge.
You see, competitive cheer already qualifies as a ...
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It was a little less than a month ago that we warned our readers about two pieces of legislation making their way through the House and the Senate that the College Sports Council believes will be used as a can opener to bring quotas and proportionality to high school sports.
As it turns out, what we feared the most is already happening in some high schools ...
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Here's a piece of news that had me gasping in astonishment: the National Organization of Women has come out in support of competitive cheer. Here's a linkto the statement:
Granting cheerleading a place in the sports world will force the development of stricter regulations, official tournaments, and improved training and safety procedures -- important ...
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Thanks to Wendy Parker, I came across a quote from Nancy Hogshead-Makar of the Women's Sports Foundation concerning the relative value of competitive cheer vs. other sports. I think it makes interesting reading. The following quote comes from The Telegraph, a newspaper in the United Kingdom:
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a lawyer for the Women's Sports Foundation, ...
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A couple of weeks ago, I got to know Kimberly Archie, the founder of the National Cheer Safety Foundation. And after having a couple of conversations with her, it was impossible not to come away incredibly impressed at both her knowledge and her energy. Here at the College Sports Council, we're very excited to be working with her.
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For those of you who don't think competitive cheer is a sport, take a look at this video report on the squad at the University of Maryland.
Can somebody send this to the Women's Sports Foundation?
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The following is an official statement from Eric Pearson, Chairman of the College Sports Council on yesterday's decision by a federal court in Connecticut that determined that competitive cheer cannot be considered a varsity sport under Title IX:
"Varsity status for competitive cheer is all about safety.
The ruling by the judge in the Quinnipiac case is ...
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A couple of weeks ago we took a look at how a budget crunch at UC Berkeley might affect the school's athletic department. Today, we see that a faculty panel has recommended slashing the department's budgetby a whopping $6 million per year. That same panel says that the school shouldn't cut any programs, but rather should get to work finding new efficiencies ...
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When the College Sports Council released its landmark study on the "opportunity gap" between men and women in NCAA Division I soccer, none of us ever believed that folks would still be talking about the study for this long. But now, here we are, better than a month after the initial release, and that same study is now the focus of a lengthy post over at Big ...
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A couple of weeks back at Opposing Views, I talked about how proponents of gender quotas like to pretend that there's only one side of the story when it comes to Title IX. I saw that dynamic at work again when a blogger from Aspen, Colorado wrote about attending a panel discussion on Title IX at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Here's a list of the members of ...
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