Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that the factors contributing to the current relationship between sex and sports may be too complicated to be stuffed inside a simple numerical ratio. Before we jump to endorse a strict standard with important implications for hundreds of universities, it would be useful to consider the complex social dynamic behind athletics in this country...
...make sense. For instance, at any of our nation's military academies, women number far less than do men. To spend equal amounts of money on men's and women's athletics at such an institution is not logical. So perhaps spending money in equal proportions to the ratio of women to men in the student body is the solution. But that system ignores the fact that for most schools this means having at least 5 more women's sports than men's sports in order to "counterbalance" the budgetary drain of men's football. Of course, what that means...
...common-sense precautions any President would take if he could. Even Vietnam does not measure up badly on that scale. For years the war was popular, the U.S. had a clear goal in defending the South, it was convinced intervention was in the national interest and, with a ratio of about 20 North Vietnamese killed for each American, decisive victory at first seemed possible...
...goals of Title IX are to increase opportunity for female athletes and provide funding comparable to that received by men's teams. These goals have largely been achieved, despite the failure to acheive the strict 50/50 ratio. The attempt to jerry-rig this nominal goal will only close the doors to male and female athletes in the long...
...want to get faculty more involved in tutorials," Hankins said, citing the need to take advantage of the department's low 5 to 1 student-teacher ratio...