383 Results for tag: Title IX
Our friends Alison Kasic and Amy Watson of the Independent Women's Forum recently had a conversation about the compliance trap set up by quota advocates when it comes to
Title IX enforcement. Click here to listen and here (MP3) to download.
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It's an idea that the University of Missouri seems willing to try.
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A small knot of College Sports Council supporters are in Washington, DC today and we're shaking our heads after reading the following story in today's edition ofUSA Today:
NCAA's Brand: Don't fault
Title IX for future cuts
By Erik Brady, USA TODAY
NCAA President Myles Brand has a message for member institutions: Don't blame
Title IX.
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Yesterday we pointed to the news that Equity in Athletics was petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against James Madison University concerning the elimination of 10 athletic programs due to
Title IX enforcement. Here's a report on the action that aired on a local affiliate in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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Every once in a while, we find somebody who is willing to cross the quota divide. In this case, that somebody is a blogger who calls himself, Hill Rat:
In 2005 the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights offered additional clarification of the three-prong test of compliance. In this clarification, the OCR provides chapter and verse on how an ...
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Back in the 1980s, the University of Dayton dropped its varsity wrestling program in order to comply with
Title IX. But thanks to some enterprising individuals, the school has started a club team and hosted its first tournament in a couple of decades this past weekend.
Better yet, Dayton came away from the tournament, which also included Bowling ...
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From an Equity in Athletics press release:
Equity in Athletics, Inc. ("EIA") filed a petition that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear EIA's case for a preliminary injunction to reinstate the ten intercollegiate athletic teams that James Madison University ("JMU") demoted to club status effective July 1, 2007.
The petition argues argues that the U.S. ...
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A little less than a week ago we pointed to a story that there was a rumor on the campus of the University of Delaware that the men's cross country team was about to cut cut due to
Title IX.
Well, where there's smoke, there's fire, and Lexi Ambrogi, a senior at Delaware and a member of the women's cross-country team, doesn't understand why this ...
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The students and faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University are currently involved in a debate over whether or not to add a varsity football program at the school. Kristine Newhall at the
Title IX blog approvingly quoted Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Paul Woody as he used the news as an opportunity to engage in some revisionist history:
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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 term "fairness" or that their board ...
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