383 Results for tag: Title IX
Thanks to an ASC Facebook fan for pointing out the University of Maryland's (UMD) "Save Our Sports" page and for pointing us to the following statement:
Can a guarantee be provided that should the eight-year fund raising goal for my team be reached, the sport will be saved?
The University of Maryland's continued compliance with the non-negotiable ...
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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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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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Veteran Portland High football coach Mike Bailey has called it quits after 26 years and a winning record. Among many reasons, one particularly stands out: The recent booster club reforms issued for Portland and Deering this past September. Instead of separate booster clubs for each sport, next year will only allow one booster club for all sports.
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On the blog, Ask Coach Wolff, Rick Wolff tells the familiar tale of boys competing on girls teams, and girls competing on boys teams in high school. He then recounts that a boy recently broke a girls' swim record and wants to know, "is that right? Was that the intent of
Title IX?"
When answering this question, it's important to backtrack to see how we ...
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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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Addressing budget shortfalls, Maryland University's presidential commission on intercollegiate athletics has suggested the elimination of 8 teams from its roster of 27 sports. The final report admits that not just balancing the school's finances came into play because "gender equity interests [also] influenced the selection of programs. The Commission was ...
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Now for some relatively positive news out of Santa Monica College (SMC): Men's soccer may be added to the athletics program next fall. Although the addition isn't certain, the Western States Conference has already approved it. And, the school has deemed that adding more opportunities for male student athletes is in compliance with
Title IX by using prong ...
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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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In an editorial in today's Quad News, Quinnipiac's independent student newspaper, editor John Hood expresses frustration that
Title IX concerns are impeding students' ability to create and participate in club sports. It's unfortunate that
Title IX, which is supposed to ensure that no one is denied opportunities based on gender, is causing those who played ...
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