Title IX phonies

Division 1 schools have finally been caught distorting numbers of female students in attempts to comply with title IX. Colleges were listing male practice players as women, which trimmed rosters of men’s teams and added players to women’s teams. Top universities in female athletics got caught, including Texas A&M and Duke University. Title IX was passed in 1972. It is a law that strictly states that no person in the United States 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 assistant. The law consists of a three prong test that allows for compliance in any one of the three prongs. The first prong says that a school must show proportionality of female athletes to female students on campus. The second prong requires the school to demonstrate expansion for the underrepresented sex. Or lastly, the school must prove full and effective accommodation of the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex. In the past, schools complied with the first prong and kept the number of female athletes and students proportional. Nowadays, with over 57 percent of the student population being female it is becoming a difficult prong to comply with.
R. Malott (kin 338I)