Posted on 09/19/2006 1:01:17 PM PDT by JSedreporter
The NCAA has appointed yet another female athletic director to help oversee the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments to the federal Civil Rights Act.
Title IX, in order to create more opportunities for female athletes, simply choked off such chances for male athletes, as wrestlers, for example. Karen Morrison, who will serve as the NCAA director of gender initiatives and student-athlete well-being, comes to the job fresh from a posting as associate athletic director of the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
“I was one of those ‘Title IX babies’ who had the opportunity to compete in college and pursue a career in collegiate athletics because Title IX opened doors,” she stated. “I’m looking forward to working with the national office and leaders in the membership to further the opportunities for women in athletics,” she promised.
What she finds might surprise her. “It may not always make sense to shortchange talented and committed men to provide underutilized opportunities to women,” Professor Deborah Rhode told Tayler Cox of The Stanford Review. Additionally, the former head of the Women’s Cross Country Program at Stanford made a surprising revelation to Cox.
“Dena Evans also noted that the women’s sports which are created to fill the funding gap, such as archery, rugby, synchronized swimming, and equestrian, have relatively high preparation costs prior to college because of travel and equipment,” Cox reported. “Consequently, she [Evans] says, ‘the new opportunities for scholarships and teams are going to those who are already well-off.’”
And here is another rich irony: While Title IX created more sports opportunities for coeds, whether they want them or not, the law also led to more coaching jobs for men, most frequently, like Rodney Dangerfield in Ladybugs, as coaches of women’s teams.
“Title IX applies to more than just student athletes,” Cox notes. “The bill also unintentionally altered trends in female coaching.”
“Data from a study conducted by the Stanford Center for Ethics shows that between 1970 and 2005, the percentage of female teams being coached by females dropped from 90% to 42%.”
So what do you do with a federal program whose “success” is open to debate? Why, expand it, of course.
“While Title IX may have created unintended barriers for women in the coaching profession, proponents of the bill recently expanded its reach to help women achieve equality from a young age,” Cox reports. “Sparked by outrage at the unequal state of softball versus baseball fields in public parks, Assembly Bill 2404, signed by [California] Governor [Arnold] Schwarzenegger in 2004, now holds entire communities to the same standards of equal opportunity for athletics as educational institutions.”
“AB 2404 follows an interventionist strategy.” Well, that would be in keeping with the legacy of Title IX.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
What kind of people get 'outraged' by this sort of thing, that's just pathetic.
The arrogance of the left. Social engineering rarely works. It generally creates more problems than it solves. But the current crop of genius lefties keep trying because, it just wasn't done right before. (Meaning that the particular person pushing the social engineering hasn't tried their oh so gifted hand at it yet.)
Sounds like something out of a weird sci-fi comic.
[satire]
Proposed Solution for Title IX at One Major College
Suggested Men's Sports
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Wrestling
Lacrosse
Track & Field
Marksmanship
Suggested Women's Sports
Field Hockey
Tennis
Competitive Diaper Changing
Dieting
Team Cooking
Intercollegiate Decorating (also available to gay men)
Speed Dating
[/satire]
Zero is equal.
Title IX will have achieved parity when a female Lacrosse team is accused of raping male strippers.
My solution to the problem is to eliminate gender-limited sports. All sports are open to students of each (every?) gender. Where there currently exist both men and women's teams, provide only ONE team, made up of the best athletes in that sport.
Frankly, that is how it should be in professional sports, too, although I confess I would miss seeing some women golf and tennis players (who could never compete with men in heads up competition).
"My solution to the problem is to eliminate gender-limited sports."
Well, then, I'm signing up for the wrestling team. Great idea.
Good luck getting girls to sign up, but you never know.
"My solution to the problem is to eliminate gender-limited sports."
I don't know...some of my girlfriends in high school enjoyed wrestling. Coed wrestling...there are already lots of college kids practising right now.
About 20 - 25 years ago, when Title IX was just getting started, some guys joined the girl's high school bowling team, and they then proceeded to win the MN state championship. It was great. I think that the state brass then made equality illegal. After all, equality only works in one direction in our feminist society.
You've got that right! My son wrestles in high school. We see girls all the time on other teams. (Typically they get beat up at the varsity level) But just try to get a boy on the girl's volleyball team... not gonna happen.
Hee, hee, hee, hee!
Just wait until the Futbolistas in Santa Ana find out that they have to share Centennial Park with the mujeres.
There will be riots.
For those of you in the "soccer is a sport for commie faggots" club, Title IX has really helped US men's soccer.
Now that there are fewer spots in NCAA soccer, teenaged boys turn pro and can play soccer all year like Europeans and South Americans do.
And that's good ?
Soccer's attraction for left-wing, limpwristed types is principally that it's a sport in which Americans are not competitive. They can get all international and cosmo and gushy and stuff.
I'd much rather American boys were in Babe Ruth League teams or playing peewee football. Basketball, even -- even though getting a kid a gun for his ninth birthday is a bit expensive.
WHAT? HOW?!
Don't they realize what a bonanza they'd have with collegiate female wrestling?
Provided they'd add mud or jello, that is.
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