Word: ixã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which women have had to fight to get equal opportunities to compete—for Yale’s first female rowers, this meant walking sweaty and chilled into the athletic director’s office and stripping off their shirts to reveal the words “Title IX?? painted across their bare breasts, in order to demand equal funding for women’s rowing. I challenge the networks to help us face this history, one which thankfully is rarely so explicitly repeated in collegiate athletic departments today...
...court were to hold that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional because schools have absolute freedom to determine education policies, then you can imagine a subsequent case citing that precedent to reduce the scope of—or even invalidate—Title IX??s funding contingency...
Hopkins added that she wonders if Title IX??the provision of the 1972 Education Amendments outlawing gender discrimination—”is not the only option...
...Title IX??s vulnerability first surfaced last February when a coalition of men’s sports groups, including the National Wrestling Coaches Association, filed a suit claiming that Title IX had gone too far and is now discriminating against men in its attempt to bring equity for women. While the Department of Justice dismissed the lawsuit, it raised a great deal of public debate and pressured President George W. Bush to form a federal commission to examine these claims. Last month, the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics voted to allow the official use of interest surveys...
...commission has failed in its primary goal—advising U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick R. Paige on ways to clarify Title IX??s practical implementation. Since the adoption of the legislation in 1972, this issue has been a subject of endless debate for courts, coaches and congressional representatives alike. On the largest question facing the commission—how schools should distribute funding—there were several proposals. One was to split funding 50-50 between men’s and women’s teams; another would distribute funding based on interest in various...