At 07:09 PM 2/19/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote:
>Title IX, the landmark law that has greatly expanded opportunities for
>girls and women to engage in sports, is in danger of being watered down.
This is another classic liberal tactic - say that Title IX has done some
good things, and then insinuate that it can't posibly be made better.
Unfortunately, Title IX, which states that colleges and universities must
have a number of intercollegiate athletic slots in proportion to their
total male-female enrollment, is a well-intentioned idea with two serious
flaws.
1) It presumes that men and women students are equally interested in
intercollegiate athletics. Now, granted that the disparity between
male-female interest in intercollegiate athletics was not anywheres near as
great as the disparity between male and female intercollegiate athletic
slots before Title IX existed, this does not mean that the level of
interest is equal across the sexes. Again, Title IX has accomplished
some good things - but this does not mean that it is without flaws or room
for improvement. Additionally, a number of factors correlated to sex can
affect interest in intercollegiate athletics, including likelihood to stay
in dorms vs. commuting from home, and interest in the other extracurricular
options available at the school.
2) Title IX does not account for football. In the US, women do not play
football, and women do not participate in any sport that requires a roster
of 50-100 athletes. One factor affecting interest in intercollegiate
athletics is the number of options available for intercollegiate athletics.
Thus, the vast number of male intercollegiate athletic slots gobbled up
by a single sport distorts every other aspect of the Title IX equation.
It is a very serious flaw that Title IX does not account for this
distorting effect in any way.
JDG
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