Insanity reigns supreme in America today.
Cheerleaders are forced to cheer at girls bball games as often as boys bball games, even though the overwhelming majority of Americans don't like watching a bunch of 5-something females lay the ball up. We are too litigious.
thank you! I go to the school that this is happening too. We are just trying to use title 9 to save the track until the end of the season. I mean, what they do when the season is over, we don't care as much about. they have "plans" to build a new one...but when that will happen...no one knows. No...the track will not be inside the stadium. the new track will be on the other side of the campus. I think it is wrong that they are taking the track in the middle of our season. I mean...why not wait until the summer????
can we use title 9 to save the track at least until the end of the season?
for those of you that do not understand title 9 (you have to have an equal number of men's facilities as women's facilities) they are taking away the track and replacing it with a football stadium. thus they are taking away a female facility and replacing with a male only facility. thus they are in violation of title 9.
Send us pics, maybe we can make it happen. Heard about a guy doing the materinty leave thing and starting his own landscaping biz.OP Sounds like its not a title 9 issue, but way to quickly play the gender card, Tutts.
A Woman... wrote:
It makes me want to have a baby.
it is totally a title 9 issue, moron...
Sorry. The new football stadium will be nothing more than a physical asset of the university like the library or science building. Since the marching band, flag corps, commencement ceremonies, and female football fans will use the facility, it is not considered "men's only". If the school decided to dig up the track for a new engineering school instead of a stadium, you would still have no Title IX claim.
The spirit of Title IX is that women are guaranteed equal access to opportunities at institutions receiving government dollars. Equal access to athletic opportunities, academic opportunities, scholarships, and the like. It does not mean that you get to save a track because football gets a new place to play. If they yanked your funding to pay for the stadium, you have a case. While a shame, splitting hairs about what the track represents will do no good. Plus, since the school made arrangements for the teams to use a high school facility nearby, they insured your "access to opportunity".
no arrangements have been made to use a facility near by. the coach's were just informed of this deicision to tear up the track yesterday. the track will be gone in 2 weeks. and considering that "female fans" will use the football facility has nothing to do with title 9.
and there is no hs track nearby to train on. the tracks near by are the pavement. we might as well mark out 400m on some random road and practice there!
The original poster made reference to having the track for another two weeks and then having to use a local high school facility.
To win a lawsuit, you must prove that you were harmed. If the teams are still funded, the scholarships still honored, the programs still part of the school's athletic offerings, then good luck finding 12 jurors that will agree that you got royally shafted and the school willfully disobeyed gender equity statutes.
Life ain't fair.
anEconomist wrote:
hey guys... in case you have noticed, there is still a lot of glass ceilings for women in this world... for the same work, women still get paid less than men; have you noticed the % of men in power versus women - guess what yep men still occupy a much large % than women; how about having to deal with a career and taking time off to have a baby in an unforgiving corporate world - oops men don't have to deal with that either; where i got my phd in finance (at a top 5 school) there was 15 phd students - 1 of them was women; this list goes on and on
Whatever. The %s of earnings and the % women in power are a joke because women don't get as fixated upon those things as men do, just like as a %s aren't on as involved in sports (especially on the obsessive level). As far as "how about having to deal with a career and taking time off to have a baby in an unforgiving corporate world - oops men don't have to deal with that either," Waa, Waa, Waa. Cry me a river. Women on average will always be more interested in relationships and family, so they never catch up percentage wise.
first of all in case you missed i am a guy... and second wow you scientific analysis blows me awayreally i mean how can some argue with your profound statements below i mean'women just don't get fixated on those things as much as men'what a great argument, and of course you have proven research to back those up... or in fact maybe society is set-up to discourgage women...go back to pre-school and play little one
lkdkld wrote:
anEconomist wrote:hey guys... in case you have noticed, there is still a lot of glass ceilings for women in this world... for the same work, women still get paid less than men; have you noticed the % of men in power versus women - guess what yep men still occupy a much large % than women; how about having to deal with a career and taking time off to have a baby in an unforgiving corporate world - oops men don't have to deal with that either; where i got my phd in finance (at a top 5 school) there was 15 phd students - 1 of them was women; this list goes on and on
Whatever. The %s of earnings and the % women in power are a joke because women don't get as fixated upon those things as men do, just like as a %s aren't on as involved in sports (especially on the obsessive level). As far as "how about having to deal with a career and taking time off to have a baby in an unforgiving corporate world - oops men don't have to deal with that either," Waa, Waa, Waa. Cry me a river. Women on average will always be more interested in relationships and family, so they never catch up percentage wise.