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From the Diablo Valley College Inquirer:
DVC may have violated Title IX with its plan to shut down several sports programs because of budget cuts, according to complaints filed with the Contra Costa Community College District and the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights.
One of the two complainants, head tennis coach Peter Benko, said ...
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Over the weekend, we got the news that Clemson University has decided to phase out its entire Men's Swimming and Diving Program as well as Women's Swimming. For some reason we can't fathom, Women's Diving has gotten a reprieve, though we would have to imagine that it's going to be awfully lonely in the pool come 2012, when the other teams will cease to ...
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On Friday we told you about the situation at Point Loma Nazarene University, a school in San Diego that cut four teams -- 3 men's and one women's -- in order to comply with the strict proportionality prong of Title IX.
Yesterday, about 100 PLNU students, led by the members of the softball team, got together to protest the cuts:
Some carried signs ...
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California continues to see cuts in its collegiate sports.
Less than two weeks after Cal State Bakersfield slashed wrestling, women's tennis, and men's and women's golf, two more schools eliminated programs in an attempt to "resolve issues involving federal gender equity guidelines," also known as Title IX compliance.
Cal State Northridge announced ...
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A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned how Delaware State University was possibly courting trouble when it decided to cut men's tennis and equestrian from its athletic program. The problem: there was simply no way that the cuts could be defended from a possible Title IX law suit.
Yesterday, what we warned about has come to pass, as an incoming student ...
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Last week, I wrote about how Title IX harms female athletes by depriving them of male training partners. A couple of days ago at Examiner.com, a member of the women's swimming team at Duquesne buttressed that claim:
Duquesne University announced Monday that four men's sports would be cut in order to "place the athletics program in the very best position ...
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Meet Jared Bowser, a sophomore redshirt catcher at Duquesne University.
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Over at Observer-Reporter.com, John Steigerwald has done some hard thinking about the men's sports cuts at Duquesne University, and dove back into the history books to do some primary source research:
It [Title IX] was supposed to be about providing equal opportunities for both genders, not equal outcomes. Feminists took over the enforcement of Title ...
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Our friends at the National Wrestling Coaches Association have put together a fact sheet with some talking points for contacting the administration at Duquesne regarding last week's program cuts.
In my mind, the most critical piece of advice is the following:
It is very important that the local, regional, and national wrestling community express ...
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Duquesne Athletic Director Greg Amodio finally came out of hiding yesterday to take questions from the press concerning the four men's sports the school eliminated earlier this week. And when the time came to face the press, Amodio told a story that's all too familiar to folks who have seen their programs destroyed:
"We took a good, hard look at that ...
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