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Taking a hit: while women's programs flourished under Title IX, men's athletics suffered.
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Byline: Dave Benson
FORT WAYNE, Ind. _ Zerian Peterson had just finished track practice at Bowling Green State University this spring when head coach Sterling Martin announced there would be a short meeting afterward.
Peterson's mind raced as he tried to think about the meeting's subject matter. Was it an update about a practice? Was it an update about a meet?
It was much worse than that.
"Our athletic director, Paul Krebs, just came o...
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Title IX about big spenders, not genders.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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; Byline: Linda Robertson MIAMI _ How did Title IX become the Wicked Witch of the West? Why has such a simple law been turned into a villainess? Title IX, which mandates equal athletic and academic opportunities for men and women at the nation's educational institutions, is under attack 30 years
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Out of bounds: Title IX not responsible for cuts in men's sports.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Dec. 12: X X X Soccer moms are as likely to be chauffeuring girls to games these days as boys. Little League dads are coaching daughters and sons. Few question women's place in the locker room anymore, largely because of the
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The ongoing battle over Title IX
USA Today
; "The purpose of Title IX is to make discrimination based on gender in education and athletics unlawful. . . . [It] does not prevent schools from abandoning the educational mission of athletics, and it cannot stop schools from deciding to drop a men's team or, indeed, its entire athletic
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Staring Down the Elephant: College Football and Title IX Compliance
Journal of Law and Education
; I. INTRODUCTION Imagine a group of football players kneeling around the head coach after a pre-season practice. The coach waits for silence and then asks, quietly, "How many of you seniors wanna play on Sunday next year?" A dozen young men raise their hands. "Well," he continues, a little louder
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TITLE IX'S PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OFTEN OVERLOOKED
Rocky Mountain News
; Everyone in sports knows the story of the law known as Title IX - how it supposedly has given tens of thousands of women a chance to play intercollegiate sports, and how even hidebound athletic departments are coming to provide the opportunities that women rightly deserve. The story has been
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