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A few weeks back, we took note of an action alert from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) concerning two pieces of legislation designed to essentially bring Title IX enforcement to American high schools:
In honor of the 38th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, join AAUW in urging your member of Congress to enforce Title IX in our high ...
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A couple of months back we pointed to a story out of California about how OCR was launching an investigation of Diablo Valley College after it eliminated six athletic teams -- three male and three female. Yesterday, under pressure from OCR, the school relented, and reinstated all of the teams.
For more, visit the Contra Costa Times or Title IX Blog.
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Earlier today over at Inside Higher Education, David Moltz took a look at a law review article by Erin Buzuvis (co-editor of the Title IX Blog) on the implications of the Supreme Court decision in Jackson vs. Birmingham Board of Education. For the College Sports Council, it's all about whistleblower protection:
Even some of those on the other side of the ...
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Over at the American Spectator, William Tucker is doing some thinking about Hanna Rosin's musings over the future of gender relations. What caught my eye was Tucker's reference to the destructive effects of Title IX enforcement on men's athletics:
When boys arrive at elite colleges they are likely to be subjected to "orientation programs" in which they ...
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Couldn't help but notice that others are beginning to understand they how and why behind the disparities in Division I college soccer that we outlined last month.
Over at Cougar Center, there's a lively debate going on right now concerning why a DI school like Washington State has a women's varsity soccer team but not a men's team.
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Last week, we told you how veteran women's basketball writer Wendy Parker came under intense attack when she suggested that it was time to reform the way Title IX has been enforced.
Safe to say, the hits keep on coming. Click here to read one of the more blistering rants you'll come across from After Atalanta.
If you'd like to leave some encouraging ...
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Over at Minding the Campus, Cathy Young has put together some thoughts on the case at Quinnipiac University that has sparked a national debate on the merits of competitive cheer.
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Yesterday over at the Title IX Blog, Erin Buzuvis took a moment to point to a 2007 GAO study on NCAA athletic participation rates to present it as evidence that claims that men's sports were being harmed by Title IX enforcement were overblown.
We'd like to remind our readers that despite the fact that the GAO concluded that both men and women had experie...
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For a number of months now, we've been hearing whispers that UC Berkeley, the school that sponsors more varsity teams than any other in the Pac-10 with the exception of Stanford, would be looking to make some cuts thanks to the state's budget crisis. The rub here is that with the current balance in the athletic department at this point, the most logical ...
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A few days ago, on the 38th anniversary of Title IX, the blog over at Ms. Magazine ran a piece on the critics of the law. Our friends at the Independent Women's Forum were mentioned, as was the College Sports Council. Here's the critical excerpt:
But IWF, like other Title IX naysayers, insists that men’s sports have consistently and seriously declined in ...
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