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To: RonF
It's my understanding that there are multiple criteria in Title IX to evaluate whether a school is in conformance with it.

Read the posted article carefully. Proportional representation is the safe harbor assurance of compliance with Title IX. The only concrete (lawsuit proof) way to prove you are not discriminating is numerical quotas linked to student body make-up. If Farleigh Dickinson coeds are not interested in sports, then the men will suffer. And the Womens Law Center and other lobby groups will sue your pants off if you try to evade the "law". The last thing these groups want to do is quantify student interest (again, read the article).

BTW, Mia Hamm and all these female soccer players benefited from Title IX before there were numerical quotas, not after. So all this bunk about how women will suffer if they stop cutting wrestling programs is really...bunk.

12 posted on 01/29/2003 2:21:08 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Nonstatist
I haven't read the article, and I freely grant that my understanding of Title IX is imperfect and less than well informed. I do not defend it's current implementation. I simply observe that it's had a very salutary effect on the opportunities my daughter has had for athletic competition, as opposed to those my wife had (we went to high school together, so I saw this first hand). My wife, not a liberal by any means, is much more highly opinionated than I am on this subject.
13 posted on 01/29/2003 2:32:18 PM PST by RonF
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