Kansas U takes steps on Title IX issue

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2010-05-06 19:36

Article here. Excerpt:

'Kansas Athletics has reached an agreement with the government addressing a complaint that it discriminates against male athletes.

KU will have to submit documentation and a plan to ensure it is in full compliance with the law as part of the agreement, which resolves a Title IX complaint filed last November.

The agreement doesn’t mean KU is out of compliance with Title IX, but was a mutually agreed upon course of action to resolve the complaint between KU and the Office of Civil Rights, which oversees Title IX regulations.

Ron Neugent, a Wichita dentist and former KU swimmer who was a member of the 1980 Olympic team, filed the initial complaint against KU using the civil rights legislation long used to bring about equality for women.

At Kansas Athletics today, unlike many cases in the past, men are the under-represented gender. Though men and women are enrolled at KU in about equal rates, women comprise nearly 55 percent of the total student-athletes at the university.

KU eliminated its men’s swimming and men’s tennis programs in 2001, citing budget concerns at the time.'

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The main reason in my opinion that this agreement was reached in favor of men is because a former male stupid actually decided to fight back!

I have always felt that one of the primary reasons men as so marginalized in today's decadent Western culture is because they simply will not fight back. We as a group are more interested in the outcome of some damned ballgame than the erosion of our civil rights.

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Submitted by Luek on Fri, 2010-05-07 03:50

Change happens when some one says,enough is enough!

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Submitted by crypter27 on Tue, 2010-05-11 12:51