50 Results for tag: gender quotas
The problem with
gender quotas, this time at Dixie State College, as captured in this article:
If the Red Storm are to add a sport, it would almost certainly be women's track and field.
The school is undergoing a gender-equity plan in an attempt to become Title IX compliant.
The school added women's golf - which was part of the plan - and isn't in ...
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Title IX, as written, is intended to prevent discrimination on the basis of gender, not to encourage it. This means that enforcing the law through proportionality measures — i.e.
gender quotas — absolutely contradicts the idea of eliminating prejudice based on gender because they inevitably deny students opportunities to participate in sports. When ...
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It gets old saying this, but we're going to again: we told you so. As
gender quotas used to apply Title IX in college athletics surface at the high school level, we will see the same destructive consequences — such as cuts to whole teams or partial rosters on boys team (and even girls teams) — unravel.
Unfortunately, for the College of Staten Island ...
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It gets old saying this, but we're going to again: we told you so. As
gender quotas used to apply Title IX in college athletics surface at the high school level, we will see the same destructive consequences — such as cuts to whole teams or partial rosters on boys team (and even girls teams) — unravel.
Unfortunately, for the College of Staten Island ...
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In today's edition of the Daily Trojan, American Sports Council President Leo Kocher was asked what was preventing the University of South California from adding new men's sports to their athletic department:
In response to the university’s recent addition of two women’s sports, some have expressed discontent with the constraints placed upon the ...
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Earlier today, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from College Sports Council President Leo Kocher. Kocher sent his letter in response to this week's story about Title IX and roster management.
To the Sports Editor:
The N.C.A.A.’s own data reveals that female college students, rather than being discriminated against, are afforded an ...
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The following statement is an official response to the New York Times story that was published this morning concerning the use of roster management by schools to comply with Title IX. It can be attributed to Leo Kocher, President of the College Sports Council:
“Title IX has been turned into a gender quota law plain and simple, and it should not be a ...
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I've been getting messages since late last night about the piece that appeared in the New York Times today concerning the widespread misreporting of athletic participation data by colleges and universities in order to comply with Title IX.
We ought to take a look at one piece of truth that was uncovered by the piece, and that's the stone cold solid fact ...
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Earlier today, the College Sports Council got into another sharp exchange on Twitter that, in the end, might have actually produced something productive. While you can read about the details yourself at Sportsmyriad, a blog run by ex-USA Today reporter Beau Dure, I'd like to focus on some of the ideas that Dure proposed for Title IX reform, ideas that ...
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Karen Owoc, an Advisory Board Member of the College Sports Council, recently wrote an essay for Congressional Quarterly on how Title IX has harmed men's athletics. The full text is below.
Title IX is a good law. The way it’s regulated, however, is not only unfair but unconstitutional. The law precisely states that “. . . no person in the United ...
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