Article: The False wall of Title IX

[Jimmy Lemke]

You can view the page at http://www.brewcityball.com/forums/c...ll-of-Title-IX

[MU88]

You don't understand Title IX either. You suggest that "[t]he ratio of scholarships for women to men must be within five percent of their representation in the overall student body. That is, if you have 100 students at a school and 50 each are men and women, you need to have at least 45 percent of your scholarships going to women." This is not the law. It is merely one test. It is also a test no one uses.

Institutions may also comply by providing both the opportunity for individuals of each sex to participate in intercollegiate competition, and for athletes of each sex to have competitive team schedules which equally reflect their abilities." Compliance can be assessed in any one of three ways:

1) Providing athletic participation opportunities that are substantially proportionate to the student enrollment. This prong of the test is satisfied when participation opportunities for men and women are "substantially proportionate" to their respective undergraduate enrollment. Notice, the language does not say scholarships.
2) Demonstrating a continual expansion of athletic opportunities for the underrepresented sex. This prong of the test is satisfied when an institution has a history and continuing practice of program expansion that is responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex (typically female).
3) Accommodating the interest and ability of underrepresented sex. This prong of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in sports.

It is this test to which most schools with football programs comply. For example, a school like Boston College has around 60 women's rowers, even though they only can offer 20 scholarship. Using prong one of the third test, rowing gives BC more women's participants to set against football. Schools also use swimming and field hockey to bad their women's participant totals. UWM could easily do the same.

[Jimmy Lemke]

That's an interesting take on things, but the benefits and financial aid portion of Title IX are pretty explicit.

[MU88]

Check out page 3 of the letter from the assistant secretary of civil rights outlining the test for compliance with title ix:

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/lis...00420_pg3.html