Posted on 04/26/2011 6:08:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ever since Congress passed the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX, universities have opened their gyms and athletic fields to millions of women who previously did not have chances to play. But as women have surged into a majority on campus in recent years, many institutions have resorted to subterfuge to make it look as if they are offering more spots to women.
At the University of South Florida, more than half of the 71 women on the cross-country roster failed to run a race in 2009. Asked about it, a few laughed and said they did not know they were on the team.
At Marshall University, the women’s tennis coach recently invited three freshmen onto the team even though he knew they were not good enough to practice against his scholarship athletes, let alone compete. They could come to practice whenever they liked, he told them, and would not have to travel with the team.
At Cornell, only when the 34 fencers on the women’s team take off their protective masks at practice does it become clear that 15 of them are men. [...]
Title IX, passed in 1972 at the height of the women’s rights movement, banned sex discrimination in any federally financed education program. It threw into sharp relief the unequal treatment of male and female athletes on college campuses.
Over the next 40 years, the law spawned a cultural transformation: the number of women competing in college sports has soared by more than 500 percent — to 186,000 a year from fewer than 30,000 in 1972.
But as women have grown to 57 percent of American colleges’ enrollment, athletic programs have increasingly struggled to field a proportional number of female athletes.
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This is an outrage!
Quotas are evil. To me quota is synonymous with displacing quality with sub standard from a protected group.
God Bless women who love sports and want to participate, but they are in the minority. This title XI social engineering really chaps my behind. Gender equality? Really?
Men and women are delightfully complimentary, but they are definitely not equal, thank God.
I’m glad to see some anti-leftist civil disobedience going on in colleges.
I know xshub has an opinion about this topic.
Whenever someone makes up stupid rules, there will be lies. Simple as that.
Betcha Katie LOVES the Women’s rowing team at Arizona. You know, the one that practices on an artificial water course the University built just for them? And most of whom had NO rowing experience.
Since the majority of college students are now women, why isn’t Title IX being enforced to benefit the men? Like maybe bring back some of the male sports that got cancelled to bring athletic numbers into Federal compliance?
Their arguments are so convoluted, they really ave reached the stage of angels dancing on the head of a pin. They’re just too pompous and self-righteous to see the self-parody they are.
“Title IX, passed in 1972 at the height of the women’s rights movement, banned sex discrimination in any federally financed education program.”
I think the idea is to get rid of federally-funded education programs. If you take the money, you have to pretend to play by the rules.
Colleges are all about diversity and inclusion—until it hits them in the wallet. Then all that liberal clap-trap BS gets tossed out the window. I think window-tossing is a new girl sport now.
But as women have grown to 57 percent of American colleges’ enrollment, athletic programs have increasingly struggled to field a proportional number of female athletes, because women have far less desire to play, practice, and to compete.
Women ain’t men. Stop trying to make them grow testicles.
You can fool people but you can’t fool money. College sports is first and foremost a business, and women’s sports don’t make money. Money will not follow a stupid rule.
yep, abolish title IX!
Indeed. . .now. . .if they would only stop trying to take the testicles from the men.
Nixon should have been impeached alone, for signing that abomination.
LOL!! hear hear!
Title IX has never been the answer. Greater interest in athletics by women and effort to achieve has been. Joan Benoit won the Olympic Marathon in 1984 in the 2:24s and later set a record in the 2:21s - the product of good genes and outstanding coaching and training.
Ohhhhhhh......now I understand the Northwestern University Sex Toy Team. It was a Title IX thing.
Second, it includes football in the numbers calculation. Football is an outlier sport for calculating number of athletes.
If Title IX only included non-revenue sports in its calculations, it would make sense. That is really where potential discrimination in terms of investment and funding takes place.
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