39 Results for tag: proportionality
Assuming all of the student-athletes are happy, try to figure out the problem with the following offerings at St. Johns River State College:
2 sports for men: Basketball and baseball. 2 sports for women: Fast-pitch softball and volleyball. Winning teams. Nicer places to practice in recent years. Not to mention generous scholarships.
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In the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota's student newspaper, Sports Editor Derek Wetmore examines how the school can reign in its sports budget after athletic director Joel Maturi leaves. The athletic department is currently a big money loser. Only 3 of the school's 23 varsity sports actually make money: football, men's basketball and men's ...
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KU Sports is reporting on a fairly uncommon type of Title IX complaint lodged against Kansas University. The complaint, filed in 2009 by a male (Ron Neugent, former KU swimmer), alleges that the University was out of compliance with Title IX because males were underrepresented. To rectify the lack of
proportionality, Mr. Neugent would like for KU to add ...
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In the Atlantic essay, “How Title IX Hurts Female Athletes,” Linda Flanagan and Susan H. Greenberg cite the prevalence of injuries and eating disorders, as well as the tremendous pressure to win games as evidence proving Title IX’s negative impact on girls. Those issues are serious and do deserve attention, but male athletes face the same challenges ...
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Last Friday, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) led a tweet-up with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to "kick off 2012 and to recognize the 40th anniversary of Title IX this year."
Here’s what actually happened:
Our Secretary of Education went to the offices of ...
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An excerpt from an interview published on Macon.com is worth sharing to demonstrate precisely what's wrong with relying upon gender quotas to build and/or change sports programs. Interviewer is reporter Seth Emerson, and interviewee is University of Georgia (UGA)'s athletic director Greg McGarity.
QUESTION: This is a little off the beaten path, but has ...
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Joliet Junior College's (JJC) board voted yesterday to cut its 61-year-old football program for two reasons: budget considerations and Title IX
proportionality. At the expense of the boys with no college football future, JJC officials and local newspapers claim victory for gender equity and student athletes who participate in other sports programs. More ...
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An article today in The Maneater, The University of Missouri (MU)'s student newspaper, revisits why the school has chosen not comply with Title IX by using prong 1, or
proportionality:
MU athletics director Mike Alden wrote a column for mutigers.com in 2003 explaining why MU, controversially, does not comply with prong one.
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Proportionality stems ...
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As schools continue to rely on a numbers game to ensure
proportionality between male and female athletes and overall school populations, we're going to keep seeing creative — if not outright controversial — ways to meet Title IX requirements.
Starting female sand volleyball teams seems to be an increasingly popular method. We previously wrote on ...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Georgia State will add women's sand volleyball for the 2013 spring season. Predictably, the school's athletic director, Cheryl Levick, cited Title IX compliance — specifically to balance gender
proportionality numbers with football — as the key reason. The addition of this sport brings with it an estimated ...
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