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Title IX Editorial by Dale Anderson
An important bit of language in the Neal / Bakersfield case has been somewhat ignored by those who have written about the case. It is as follows: "...A number of courts of appeals have addressed another potentially dispositive issue in this appeal -- namely, whether Title IX permits a university to diminish athletic opportunities available to men so as to bring them into line with the lower athletic opportunities available to women. Every court, in construing the Policy Interpretation and the text of Title IX, has held that a university may bring itself into Title IX com- pliance by increasing athletic opportunities for the underre- presented gender (women in this case) or by decreasing athletic opportunities for the overrepresented gender (men in this case)." This means that virtually every school in the country is being told. You don't have to increase female participation. You can just dump the males to comply with the quota proportionality. As we all know, there is no way to achieve proportionality by dumping males without killing off wrestling and every other male olympic sport. That should make the wrestling community angry enough to do something -- e.g. sign a petition or talk personally to your Congressman.
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