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What Judge Raymond Pettine's ruling points to is Brown's failure to establish proportionate numbers of varsity athletic positions for men and women as a violation of the federal law known as Title IX. Mandating gender proportionality, supporters say, successfully enfeebles forces that cling to the view that female athletics are less important, getting to the heart of what equal treatment is all about. As Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation, asserted, "This win is one more step in the right direction for women's sports...
...Title IX reads, "No person...shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." There are a pair of obvious and disturbing consequences to reading Title IX as a gender-proportionality standard, neither of which involves the assumption that men's athletics are better, more important, or more fun to watch...
...want to agree with the those members of the Crimson Staff who wrote the dissent to the editorial on Title IX ("Demand Sets Funding," Apr. 21, 1995). They Correctly note that despite the good intentions of Title IX, the legislation is often used not to augment athletic opportunities for women, but rather to eliminate athletic opportunities for male athletes...
...have experienced this effect personally--I was a first year member of the University of Illinois Men's Swim team when it was eliminated for a combination of Title IX and budgetary reasons...
...elimination of my team was very painful and life altering for me. I would like to think that proponents of Title IX are not so heartless as to wish such and unpleasant experience upon me. Yet these types of experiences are what most often results from the application of Title IX to a collegiate athletic department...