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...TITLE IX, which mandates equal allotment of college and university athletic funds to men and women on a per capita basis, poses a threat to big revenue sports. The schools that count on that revenue plan to water the law down...
...Edmund Joyce, vice president of the University of Notre Dame, a school that invests heavily in football and basketball for top National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rankings, has started a costly and powerful lobbying effort to persuade Congress to exempt intercollegiate sports from Title IX. If Joyce's initiative succeeds, women's sports will receive the same monetary considerations from most schools that it has in the past: virtually none...
Although Joyce and Congressional supporters of such big revenue sports as football and basketball attempted to exempt revenue-producing sports from the legislation in 1974, failure seems to have intensified the fight against Title IX. Joyce wants his colleagues to stop Title IX, break away from the NCAA and form their own athletic association. In this way, the big sports revenue schools, which have already flaunted the legislation, could ignore HEW rules, pay the fine and compete under their own auspices...
With the fate of Title IX still uncertain, Radcliffe is sponsoring two panel discussions and a brunch this weekend as a "Celebration of Women Athletes...
Janus passed out forms entitled "Title IX Alert," urging students to exert pressure on congressmen by writing personal letters...