Commission: Title IX interpretation unnecessarily hurts men's sports

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2010-04-08 14:09

Article here. Excerpt:

'The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a series of recommendations on Title IX policy Thursday aimed at what it called an "unnecessary reduction of men's athletic opportunities."

The commission recommended that schools use a model survey offered by the Department of Education in 2005, calling it "the best possible method" for measuring women's interest and abilities. The survey is one of three ways schools can meet the participation requirements of Title IX, the law that bans sex discrimination at schools receiving federal funds.

That model survey was blasted by women's groups when it was introduced. The NCAA asked member schools not to use it. Few have. Daniel Cohen, an attorney who was a panelist before the commission, said he knows of several schools that have used it, though he declined to name them.

"The commission concluded that a properly administered model survey with a high response rate can potentially help schools improve their Title IX compliance and may provide an objective alternative to proportionality for some schools," Cohen said.'

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... at least where college sports is concerned. But I am too old to think that the financial interests as expressed in the story I just published on this very same site are not also at work. Women's sports just does not bring in the $$ that men's does, and money as I have said before does not talk, it screams. You can be sure that it has played a very big part in the Commission's sudden realization that indeed, Title IX has been misapplied. Now when will they and others see that is being misapplied elsewhere as well? More work to be done.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2010-04-08 18:42

I think this is just a gambit to set up the far more intrusive S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, math) application of Title IX in the works. If they can be shown to be successfully containing the damage done to men's sports, then the powers will be more amenable to letting loose Title IX on STEM, which is far more crucial. It's a pawn sacrifice.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Fri, 2010-04-09 15:09