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Title IX
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Colleges do give out scholarships to talented musicians, ballet dancers, and performers, ect. In case you were wondering.
What is unfair is that guys have to have some experience and proven skill to get a full ride scholarship. In women's sports, they often give it out to anyone who shows up.
What is unfair is that guys have to have some experience and proven skill to get a full ride scholarship. In women's sports, they often give it out to anyone who shows up.
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No offense to any women that may read this but Men's sports didn't start out getting national televison and big contracts it took 50 years before baseball catipulated as a mainstream sport in the 1900's. If they want Women's sports to be popular they are going to have to do it the old fashioned way by building up a fan base, and get women to play sports.
Title IX reads:"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 assistance."
The Carter administration(anything he couldn't screw up?) developed a three-pronged test of compliance:
Prong one - Providing athletic opportunities that are substantially proportionate to the student enrollment, OR
Prong two - Demonstrate a continual expansion of athletic opportunities for the underrepresented gender, OR
Prong three - Full and effective accommodation of the interest and ability of underrepresented gender.
This test shouldn't necessarily be the death knell for men's sports programs. Of course, the judicial system being what it is it is no wonder that men have suffered. If the men's basketball and football teams were predominantly white I think the ravages that unrealistic interpretations of Title IX have wrought would be even worse. Though, if basketball and football were to feel a greater impact from Title IX white players would potentially benefit. Athletic scholarships at this point are an affirmative action program that have contributed considerably to the degradation of academic standards. You'd think that getting an athletic scholarship would require at least the ability to use the proper verb tense. I would not be sorry to see the so-called "scholarship" system done away with. If not done away with why not more limited. Why does everyone on the team need to be a scholarship player? Also, if the academic demands, both to get into college and to stay there, were more rigorous the percentage of whites would undoubtably increase.
The Carter administration(anything he couldn't screw up?) developed a three-pronged test of compliance:
Prong one - Providing athletic opportunities that are substantially proportionate to the student enrollment, OR
Prong two - Demonstrate a continual expansion of athletic opportunities for the underrepresented gender, OR
Prong three - Full and effective accommodation of the interest and ability of underrepresented gender.
This test shouldn't necessarily be the death knell for men's sports programs. Of course, the judicial system being what it is it is no wonder that men have suffered. If the men's basketball and football teams were predominantly white I think the ravages that unrealistic interpretations of Title IX have wrought would be even worse. Though, if basketball and football were to feel a greater impact from Title IX white players would potentially benefit. Athletic scholarships at this point are an affirmative action program that have contributed considerably to the degradation of academic standards. You'd think that getting an athletic scholarship would require at least the ability to use the proper verb tense. I would not be sorry to see the so-called "scholarship" system done away with. If not done away with why not more limited. Why does everyone on the team need to be a scholarship player? Also, if the academic demands, both to get into college and to stay there, were more rigorous the percentage of whites would undoubtably increase.