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It seems that the hardliners in favor of the quota system in Title IX enforcement are taking notice of a new campaign by the Fairness in Sports Foundation (FISE): MOMSS: Moms on a Mission to Save Sports. Here's Kristine Newhall at the Title IX blog: I probably don't need to point out the irony in their use of the ... More

Title IX Strangling Men’s Sports at the University of Illinois

More and more often, we're finding journalists who refuse to buy the hardline messages about Title IX enforcement from the quota crowd. The latest example comes from Kevin Kaplan, who writes for the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois. In today's edition of the newspaper, Kaplan writes about how Title IX has ... More

Remembering JV Football in College

Football 'n' Politics 'n' You has some thoughts on the demise of JV Football at the college level: Given the above, and the relatively small (for Division I programs, basically negligible) cost of JV programs - why have they gone the way of the dodo?, or at least the giant panda? The answer lies is the limits on squad ... More

Men’s Track and Field Under Threat at Bemidji State

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 sug... More

More on Title IX and the Obama Administration

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 ... More

More Thoughts on Obama and Title IX

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, ... More

The President-Elect on Title IX

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. ... More

Title IX Kills Oregon Wrestling

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, ... More

Title IX Strangling Men’s Soccer

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. [...] Because American ... More

WIU to Use Model Surveys to Demonstrate Title IX Compliance

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 Univer... More