Tension erupts as college considers ending basketball due to Title IX

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'The men’s basketball program at St. Johns River State College is in imminent danger of being eliminated, but those wishing to prevent the removal of the school’s oldest sport aren’t going down without a fight.

School president Joe Pickens will be asking the Board of Trustees to consider several options at a Wednesday meeting on the McClendon campus to keep the college in compliance with Title IX regulations, including the controversial measure of dropping basketball, which has been in place at the Palatka school since the early 1960s.
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The college, which is approximately 60 percent female, has had the same four sports for nearly two decades (baseball, basketball, softball and volleyball). With 38 scholarships for women and 30 for men, that translates to about a 56-44 percentage split in favor of the women. As long as schools are within 5 percent of the male-female student breakdown, the federal government considers them in compliance. For schools in danger of non-compliance, the governing bodies of all college athletics usually allow a grace period of at least two years to meet federal guidelines.

“As it stands, [SJRSC] is not out of [Title IX] compliance,” said Wanda Young, coordinator of Access and Civil Rights for the Florida college system. “The school has been working back and forth with us to see where they are.”'