Tlit!: Time's Up for Title IX Sports
Gavora, Jessica
"Tlit!: Time's Up for Title IX Sports" BY JESSIC AGAVORA In the spring of 2001 an ad sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum appeared in UCLA's Daily Bruin, offering to expose "the 10 most...
...Even among students whose lives are most affected byTitle IX quotas, there is little questioning of the need or the rationale for federally mandated gender equity...
...But according to Mahoney and others, bringing the right challenge in the more conservative Fourth Circuit (which covers Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina,Virginia andWestVirginia) or the Fifth Circuit (including Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi) could bring a judgment that restores the original intent of the law...
...In The Game of Life: College Sports and Edu cational 1 alnes, James Shulman of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and former Princeton University president William Bowen examine what kind of students are currently being admitted to schools under athletic preferences...
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...Conservatives of the last generation certainly did not lead the charge for women's rights-properly understood to be the same rights before the law that men historically have enjoyed...
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...Female athletes have more teams to choose from in colleges and universities today than male athletes.They receive more athletic scholarship aid per capita than male athletes.The battle for "gender equity" is not a battle for resources...
...American education has received the message loud and clear...
...Women's advocates have been careful so far to push for Title IX quotas in liberal district courts that are likely to agree with their version of equity...
...As long as the funds were there, providing the scholarships and building or upgrading facilities for new women's teams were relatively easy...
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...Somewhat cowardly" is the wrong term to apply to the editors of the Daily Bruin, but the right term for most participants in the discussion of women's role in American life today...
...has lowered until the last reading was one point two...
...CCSU had already brought the percentage of its athletes who are female from 29 to 49 by dropping men's wrestling and adding women's lacrosse...
...Naquin sued to win his right to coeducation...
...To make sure that a risk-averse new Republican president doesn't make the mistake of thinking he can take on the Title IX lobby with impunity, these gender warriors point to the results of a 2000 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that seems to show widespread public support for Title IX quotas: Q: Title IX is a,federal la' that prohibits high schools and colleges that receive federal finds from discriminating on the basis of gender...
...Proportionality is the threshold test for Title IX compliance in federal regulation...
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...Title IX is most commonly invoked to ensure equal opportunities for girls and women in higli school and college athletics...
...citing financial pressures and federal gender equity requirements...
...A school that invites a lawsuit by cutting a women's team or refusing to create a new team to meet the gender quota might very well decide to fight back in court rather than be forced to incur costs it can't afford.Alternately, male athletes whose positions are eliminated might decide to take a cue from Duane Naquin, a Boston College senior who was denied entry on the basis of his sex to a class in feminist ethics taught by theology professor Mary Daly...
...Financial investors, unlike college administrators, can't be coerced into providing the resources necessary for women's leagues to survive...
...And kept out of your medicine cabinet by the very agency designed to protect your health-the FDA...
...Last year, the WNBA put out a list of married and engaged players, a move seemingly designed to appeal to its fan base of families with children...
...Five years after the launch of the Women's National Basketball Association and a year after the debut of the Women's United Soccer Association, gender equity may still be more politically profitable than financially rewarding...
...But they are virtually alone...
...The bad news for Title IX quota advocates is that rising budget pressures may finally give schools a real incentive to go to court, to argue that women's programs should be fair game as well...
...As early as 1947, Virginia Livingston, M.D., isolated a cancer-causing microbe...
...But the principle of nondiscrimination that is embodied in the original intent of Title IX has stood the test of time...
...They wooed their allies and cowed their enemies in Congress and insisted that both parrot their message.They conducted a highly effective and sophisticated media campaign...
...COUCH POTATO BLIGHT Another cloud darkening the future of gender quotas under Title IX is the failure so far of women's sports to attract the fan base and revenue potential that many men's sports enjoy...
...not every school has fallen under scrutiny from the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights and been forced to cut men's teams, add women's teams or do both to achieve "proportionality...
...they've seen how OCR has treated schools Jessica Gavora is cluefspeechwriterfirAttorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft and the author of Tilting the Playing Field, from which this is excerpted...
...But preferences for female athletes-and arguments for female quotas within athletic programs-are often justified on grounds above and beyond the contribution these women make to sports teams...
...Less and less are sports treated as another part of a well-rounded educational experience...
...I have no doubt that the Supreme Court will take the case if and when there is a split in the circuit courts," says Maureen Mahoney, who argued Brown University's case to the Supreme Court...
...That is, a female athlete had a.53 percent better chance of being admitted than a nonathlete with the same SAT score...
...Although Title IX preferences have yet to be struck down in a federal district court-and thus be made a prime target for Supreme Court review-creative legal challenges in the right circuits could yield results for fairness and gender-blind policies...
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...And the WSF is just the vanguard of an army of seasoned veterans of the gender wars who stand ready and eager to defend the territory they've gained under Title IX...
...The reality is that the federal government has enforced a quota standard in Title IX athletics for much of the past decade...
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...They helped draft regulations and interpretations of regulations and interpretations of interpretations of regulations...
...Writing about the "conundrum of quotas" in The Wall Street Journal in the opening months of the Bush administration, Shelby Steele noted that conservatives have a hard time not appearing mean when they stand on principle on the issue of race because they lack moral authority...
...After some significant rollback of race-based preferences in the 1990s, elected officials and even conservative activists seem to have lost their appetite for battling identity politics.To stand on principle, many seem to believe, is to risk appearing "mean-spirited" in an age when compassion is the opiate of the electorate...
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...The rising cost of fielding intercollegiate athletic teams is also contributing to a reexamination of how sports fit within the mission of the university...
...Over half of the women's teams are even turning to marketing directly to lesbians through events like "Gay Pride Night...
...In June 1999 the OCR's Northeast regional office sent a letter to the athletic director and administrators of Central Connecticut State University, warning that they must add 20 female athletes to their sports roster to comply with the federal law...
...But there is hope even for them...
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...Lopiano and others rationalize the small crowds at women's sporting events with the argument that the women's sports market needs time to mature, that the female sports fan is an "emerging" fan...
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...This kind of marketing, however, carries a risk of alienating some fans...
...But schools don't need to experience a federal investigation or a lawsuit to know that their athletic departments are not under their control.They've read the "policy interpretations...
...increasingly teams must justi their existence by winning...
...But those who go into this battle have at their side two often underrated assets: First, it's the law...
...Having labored for a decade to attract women to programs, UWM had achieved near-perfect parity in the spring of that year: 429 athletes on campus were men and 425 were women...
...Scientists and researchers applauded...
...Another financial strain is accommodating the growing desire among athletic directors and fans alike that teams be competitive on the national level...
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...The Gaine of Life sets out purposefully to shoot down the various "myths" of intercollegiate athletics, chief among them, in Shulman and Bowen's view, that athletics builds character...
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...The trend in women's athletics, particularly in the most competitive, high-profile sports, is away from the ideal often claimed by Title IX quota ideologues...
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...Before the new Bush administration even had the chance to appoint a secretary of education, the powerful Women's Sports Foundation fired a shot across the White House bow, vowing to fight "any change that weakens this law and results in unequal treatment of female athletes...
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...The first step toward ending gender quotas, then, is to demand the truth from those who insist they don't exist...
...As we have seen, there are real, innate differences between the sexes, of the kind that cannot be shown to exist between people of different races...
...And in such a situation, the rationale that women's preferences under Title IX are justified because they create better students and better citizens becomes hard to sustain...
...According to Stefan Fatsis, sportswriter for The Wall Street Journal, several owners of NBA franchiseswho also own the local WNBA teamswould rather not have to continue the women's teams, but they have been ordered by NBA commissioner David Stern to "stick with it...
...and they've seen how the courts have ruled on the Brown and Cal State Bakersfield cases...
...Nowhere is the reality gap wider than in women's sports...
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...But females made up 51 percent of the students at CCSU, so OCR insisted that twenty more female athletes were neededthe so-called "proportionality" principal...
...they will challenge the moral authority of those who seek to restore the original intent of the law...
...Can a conservative administration challenge quotas for girls and women without appearing "mean" and losing the thin margin of centrist voters who put it in office-voters who would most likely oppose gender preferences if they knew they existed but who nonetheless distrust conservatives on issues involving women...
...Shulman and Bowen argue that athletes today are less academically prepared, less concerned with scholarship and more financially directed than their fellow students...
...Partly through government fiat, partly through a shared ideology, they built a phalanx of promoters and defenders of"gender equity" on college campuses and in high schools and grade schools across the country...
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...The past decade of gender-based quota expansion in women's sports has also been a time of relative prosperity for colleges and universities...
...It has allowed girls and women to rise from uncomfortable interlopers to become the dominant force in American education...
...The university women's center demanded that the Daily Bruin "retract" the ad...
...Liberalism has been suborned on the issue of sex quotas...
...wrote Steele...
...Few topics involve more disinformation and shaving of the truth on the one side and political cowardice on the other...
...When the paper's editor defended it as an exercise in free speech, Christie Scott, head of the campus feminist "Clothesline Project;' dismissed this rationale as "somewhat cowardly...
...And whereas female athletes were once at least as academically qualified as other female students, they now lag behind...
...Another benefit frequently cited to justify preferences for female athletes under Title IX is racial and ethnic diversity...
...It is the standard adopted by the courts and the only guarantee that a school will not be exposed to a federal investigation or a lawsuit...
...After 30 years of study, Dr...
...if it were, women's groups would have declared victory some time ago...
...Just as in the case of Dr...
...Driven by the desire to overcome real discrimination against girls and women, activists like Donna Lopiano and Norma Cantu and groups like the Women's Sports Foundation, the National Women's Law Center and the American Association of University Women set out to create preferences for girls and women...
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...In some cases, this has meant that schools struggling to meet the gender quota in athletics could do so in relatively painless ways, by adding women's sports and/or limiting men's participation by cutting walkons...
...Many girls and women are enthusiastic participants in sports, but when it comes to being a fan-buying a ticket for a game or watching one on TV-men are still the driving force...
...Budgets for women's sports are rising faster than those for men's sports, as is spending on scholarships for women...
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...Initially the primary function was opening doors of opportunity," said executive director Donna Lopiano at the WSF's fourteenth annual conference in 2000...
...GET SMART The good news is that there are storm clouds gathering on Title IX's horizon...
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...A slowing economy combined with escalating expenses in athletic programs, however, threatens to change this...
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...The University of Nebraska has also axed men's s g and diving, leaving only four of the schools in the Big 12 conference still participating in the sport...
...These exploding costs have already triggered a fresh round of budget cuts...
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...This compulsion is helping to fuel an "arms race" in spending, nor just on big time football and basketball prograins, but on women's teams and men's "nonrevenue" sports as well.According to the Chrouide of Higher Education, "nonrevenue" teams in NCAA Division I cost roughly $220,000 on average in 1999-2000.And at big-time football schools, where more money is available, women's teams and men's nonrevenue squads can cost up to half a million dollars apiece...
...Using the same database that provided the intellectual fodder for Bowen's earlier defense of race-based affirmative action-data on 90,000 students who attended 30 selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s-the authors claim that of all the recipients of affirmative action in colleges and universities today, female athletes are the most preferred...
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...It was liberals, of course, who took the battle for women's rights forward...
...But as applied to organized sports,Title IX has been interpreted and twisted and bent outside the institutions of our electoral democracy, conforming at last to the shape of unintended consequences: A law designed to end discrimination against women is now causing discrimination against men...
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...In many respects this is true, but the for-profit world of women's professional athletics is very different from the subsidized world in which the "gender equity" battle has so far been fought...
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...And it is a rare politician or government official who will tell the truth about the law's enforcement today.The first step toward re-leveling the playing field between the sexes in our schools, then, is simply beginning to tell the truth about Tide IX...
...Headlines hit every major paper around the world...
...Because females now constituted a majority of students on the Madison campus (53.1 percent), the school would have to add another 25 women...
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...Now, it's exploiting the participation of women in sports in the economic sense, gaining access to assets, program expansion and addressing the continuing problem of girls being discouraged from sports...
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...Journalists-even ink-stained veterans-routinely describe compliance with Title IX in terms of the equal sharing of resources between men and women in athletics.The result is that it is rare for a citizen who picks up a newspaper or turns on the television to see coverage of the law that is riot glowingly positive...
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...TIME'S UP FOR TITLE IX SPORTS B Y J E S S I C A G A V O R A I n the spring of 2001 an ad sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum appeared in UCLA's Daily Bruin, offering to expose "the 10 most common feminist myths...
...Iowa State has eliminated baseball and men's swimming...
...Can we now credibly argue that the principle of gender-blindness be upheld in the laws meant to guarantee it...
...For over 10 years now her methods have proved effective-yet she is denied publication-blocked by the giants who don't want you to read her words...
...Nonetheless, before feminism took that destructive turn, conservatives did not champion the cause of equality for women, and more often than not they resisted it...
...And yet Title IX is remarkably entrenched...
...Make women athletes, we are told, and you make better women...
...This denial of opportunity for men is occurring because a group of people with a narrow agenda has worked hard and successfully behind the scenes to make it happen...
...Congress did a seemingly simple and laudable thing when it passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments in 1972: "No person in the U.S...
...The Women's Sports Foundation recently declared a "Brave New World" in which girls and women don't just get a place on the playing field, they get big bucks for playing...
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...The way out is to defend the principle of nondiscrimination, even when it is hard...
...Letters like these are routinely sent to schools struggling to stay on the right side of the federal authorities...
...Christina Hoff Sonrners-the author of the UCLA ad Judith Kleinfeld, author, and psychiatrist Sally Satel and others have done an excellent job of uncovering the disinformation and false statistics used by women's advocates to advance their agenda...
...Conde Nast gave up on Women's Sports and Fitness in 2000 after spending two years and a. reported $45 million trying to find an audience...
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...Instead of representing the female ideal at the start of the twenty-first century-tough, smart, confident and empowered-female athletes are beginning to resemble the dimwitted, half-civilized male athletes of the feminist stereotype...
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...Title IX quotas have never been the subject of debate.They were created outside the electoral process by unelected officials working hand in hand with special interest groups...
...Bucknell University has announced it will drop wrestling and men's crew as varsity sports, eliminating 44 men's positions in order to reach male-female proportionality...
...LESS IS LESS s I write this, the University of Kansas has eliminated its men's swimming d tennis teams...
...what it does suggest is that we should not expect parity in all fields...
...The equation of race preferences with Title IX sex preferences is not perfect...
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...According to Lawrence Wenner of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, about 20 percent of men but only 4 to 5 percent of women can be described as "strong, cormnitted" sports fans...
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...64 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR . MAY/JUNE 2002 Yes, approve of Title IX: 79% No, do not approve of Title IX: 14% Do not know enough about it: 4% Not sure: 3 But the issue under Title IX isn't the fair and equal division of resources between men and women...
...Do you approve or disapprove of Title IX as it is described here...
...With some justification, women's groups argue that girls who play sports are associated with such positive traits as higher graduation rates, less drug use, higher self-esteem and lower levels of teenage pregnancy...
...The Big 12 is now questioning whether it will continue to stage a men's swinuning and diving championship or do away with it altogether, a move that will almost certainly result in the remaining schools eliminating their men's programs...
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...This is a conundrum of sex quotas every bit as difficult as Shelby Steele's conundrum of race quotas...
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...In the Daly case and others to come, public interest law firms like the Center for Individual Rights have been effective in reversing the course of sex discrimination in our schools...
...And what are schools gaining from this admissions preference...
...You had to do an enormous amount of research to bring this vast and most important knowledge to your readers...
...But Shulman and Bowen found that Title IX produced gains mainly for white girls, not minorities...
...Then there's the University ofWisconsin at Madison, which received a similar letter in the fall of 2000...
...At each stage in the legal and bureaucratic evolution ofTitle IX, they out-thought, out-worked and out-cared the people whose opportunities were being destroyed.The edifice of discrimination these activists built is a testament to their commitment, In the end, of course, it is up to those charged with enforcing our laws to apply Title IX honestly and forthrightly...
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...The effect has been to give artificial life support to the myth that girls and women are an oppressed minority, clinging weakly to their rights only with the assistance of the full weight and authority of government...
...Conservatives can gain new moral authority by insisting on standing by this principle and resisting a distortion of the law that discriminates against a new group of victims and demeans the very achievements of the girls and women it purports to protect...
...Nobody questions the underlying assumptions ofTitle IX, that male and female students will be equally interested in organized sports and that a lack of proportional numbers must indicate something is `wrong,' " says Robert Geary, professor of English at James Madison University...
...And liberal feminist groups will make it hard to stand on this principle...
...OCR officials such as Clinton administration's Norma Cantu are being dishonest when they insist that because the regulations don't "require" sex quotas, those who administer the regulations don't work relentlessly to make quotas happen...
...It is the standard for compliance with Title IX today.To say otherwise is to lie, plain and simple...
...This is not how the pollsters who conducted the survey for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal asked the question...
...It is a measure of the power of liberal women's rights activists in academia today that universities are unable-or unwilling-to complain as the federal government micromanages more and more of their affairs in the name of "gender equity...
...Iowa State University, the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska have all recently begun major cuts to their men's athletic programs...
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...Were conservatives of the last generation fastidious about principles when segregation prevailed as a breach of every known democratic principle, including merit...
...The way out of this conundrum is the same as it was in the 1920s, when women struggled for the right to vote, and the same as it was in the 1950s, when blacks encountered segregationists at the schoolhouse door...
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