383 Results for tag: Title IX
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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One canard that gets repeated a lot by supporters of gender quotas is that
Title IX isn't really the problem when it comes to the elimination of men's sports. Instead, as you can see above in a tweet from just a few hours ago, they argue that the real problem is all of the money schools spend on big time football, and to a lesser extent, basketball.
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Last Friday evening, the College Sports Council got into an extended conversation with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Senior Director for Advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation on our Twitter feed. While the issues we discussed were serious, I had a good time jousting with her on behalf of the CSC, even if she worked hard to dodge some of the more pointed ...
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We've gotten quite accustomed to seeing athletic programs eliminated every Spring. We don't like it. We know that it's unfair. But we know why and how it happens over and over again.
But what we'll never get used to is seeing a national championship caliber program eliminated with nary a shrug of the shoulders.
That's exactly what happened earlier ...
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Another wrestling team was blasted out of existence this week when the University of North Carolina at Greensboro announced it was terminating its program. Four wrestlers from UNC-Greensboro qualified for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships being held from March 17-19 in Philadelphia. Good luck to those young men. Not matter the outcome, I'm betting ...
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The College Sports Council just issued the following press release.
College Sports Council Urges High Schools to Fight Use of
Gender Quotas to Comply with
Title IX in Athletics
Application of law’s three-part test is unconstitutional and
could potentially sideline 1.3 million male athletes
WASHINGTON, D.C.—February 8, 2011—The College Sports ...
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Earlier today, the following letter was sent by the Independent Women's Forum to U.S. Representative John Kline (R-MN), the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce concerning
Title IX and high school athletics.
In it, Lukas urges Congressman Kline to investigate OCR's activities in this area. More later.
February 8, 2011
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Here's the video from last night's
Title IX debate on Stossel. Seems clear to me that Allison Kasic won this encounter hands down.
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Tonight's edition of Stossel, airing at 9:00 p.m. U.S. EST and again at Midnight, is taking a closer look at the world of sports, including
Title IX and college athletics. The show will be dedicating an entire segment to the topic, and our friend, Allison Kasic of the Independent Women's Forum, will be taking the pro-reform position against Nancy Hogshead...
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We've written about how
Title IX poses a threat to high school athletic booster clubs. That's why we were cheered earlier today when we read this account of how the father of two cheerleaders sprung into actionwhen his local school board tried to pass regulations that would have forced the cheer boosters to share the money they raised with other clubs:
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