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Somehow we missed this news a couple of weeks back, but it seems as if the administration at Bemidji State in Minnesota is prepared to take the advice of a Title IX consultant and eliminate the school's men's track and field program. In response, Andy Eggerth, an assistant track coach at Kansas State University, is suggesting the school find another path ...
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Continuing the conversation on what we can expect from an Obama Administration on Title IX, here's a link to a proposal that comes from a long list of ideas from Rita Henley Jensen of The Big Five, a blog sponsored by the National Council for Research on Women:
President-elect Obama should also appoint a Title IX Task Force within the Department of ...
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A couple of other folks have taken note of our post on Title IX and the Obama Administration form yesterday. Here's our friends at Stick It Media:
Obama is a big sports fan. He loves to play basketball and he recently voiced his advocacy for a playoff system for college football. Since he’s such a big sports fan, perhaps he should take a serious look ...
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With last night's election of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to the presidency, some folks are already asking what the change in administrations might mean for the future of Title IX enforcement. Here's Lester Munson at ESPN.com:
Obama's approach to governing can be expected to have some indirect impacts in college sports. Coaches, athletes and administrat...
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Though we missed this last week, we would be remiss not to take a moment to note that an Oregon state judge rejected a law suit filed to force the University of Oregon to retain its men's wrestling program. Here's a passage from the blog Save Oregon Wrestling that's awfully telling:
In a decision dated October 22, 2008, and received today, Judge Lynn E. ...
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I had to pass along a passage from this post that appeared at SoccerLens. In it, an American soccer fan tries to explain to an international audience exactly why the "beautiful game," is struggling so mightily in the USA:
Title IX has decimated the youth systems that at one point existed.
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Because American football without a doubt brings in the ...
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Here's some welcome news out of the state of Illinois:
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Western Illinois University have signed a resolution agreement following a complaint filed with the OCR alleging Title IX violations by the University's Intercollegiate Athletics Program.
The complaint alleged that the University does not effectively accommodate ...
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As we've seen from some of the posts we've linked to recently, the use of pretzel-bending logic to justify the misapplication of Title IX in college athletics can be mind-numbing to say the least. Here's yet another example, this time from West Virginia University student newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum, as it told the story of how the school wrung ...
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College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson had a letter to the editor published it Saturday's edition of the Washington Post. It was submitted in response to an article published earlier this month concerning how fewer and fewer boys are taking up swimming:
We were cheered to see the Oct. 8 Sports article "Closing Gender Gap in the Pool" acknowledge ...
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Over at Because I Played Sports, Megan Lauren O'Donnell is tying herself into logical knots trying to deny that the manner in which Title IX is enforced has resulted in the elimination of men's wrestling programs all over the country. In addition to compounding that fallacy, she makes it worse by claiming that opponents of Title IX reform are fighting ...
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