Title IX
In April, the US Supreme Court let stand a ruling that strengthens a controversial interpretation of Title IX, the 1972 legislation that denies federal funding to universities that discriminate based on sex in scholastic sports. The newest interpretation makes it necessary for universities to have strict parity between men’s and women’s sports, or more precisely, the number of men and women athletes must mirror the ratio of men to women in the student body. In the court case, several female students sued Brown University when it cut two women’s sports teams in 1991. At the time of the suit, Brown’s overall enrollment was 51 percent female. Budget cuts left the school with 14 varsity sports for men and 14 for women, but only 38 percent of all varsity athletes were female. Brown’s lawyers argued that the disparity reflected a difference of interest, not discrimination. Title IX opponents, such as groups of US college officials and men’s sport associations, say that boys simply like sports more than girls. Strict parity, these groups say, is forcing the nation’s colleges to cut men’s teams or else increase the overall athletic budget--a near impossible feat in this era of cost cutting. Indeed, a recent study by the NCAA shows t
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