oops, that was a flight result, Mayle gets 4th at NCAA
oops, that was a flight result, Mayle gets 4th at NCAA
Where are the distance runners looking to transfer to?
More on the issues at Ohio University - http://www.runohio.com/news/03-12-07Ohio_U_Track.html
Also more on: http://bringingbackohiotrack.blogspot.com
Keep up the pressure. Good Luck!!!
Nice reading...Hopefully they will wake up in Athens...
Besides blogs and threads, how's the situation progressing?? Yea, that's what I thought. I'm a track guy too, but at least I'm on an actual team.
Looking to read more on issues about preserving and promoting the student athlete experience at the college level.
Go to:
http://www.knightcommission.org
Go to:
http://www.collegesportscouncil.org/home
Get active - to help Save Men’s Track and Field in the Mid American Conference:
the college experience?
you might want to analyze the college sports council website again.http://www.collegesportscouncil.org/home/
That is the most anti-Title IX site I think I have ever witnessed, not to mention the facts on the home page are distorted and the mission is merely to reform civil right laws. I enjoyed the endorsement of the organization however, bashing Title IX, five full endorsements of the organization, all men.
From today’s posting on -
http://bringingbackohiotrack.blogspot.com
Post Editorial Tackles Faulty Title IX Implementation
Feminist-enforced Title IX harms male, female athletes
It’s been more than two months since the Ohio University Athletics Department unceremoniously dumped four sports teams from its program, and the outrage among student athletes and supporters has not subsided. Unfortunately, they’re not alone. OU is one of many schools that has eliminated sports teams in compliance with Title IX, the federal statute feminists use to dictate their vision of “gender equality” in college athletics.
On Jan. 24, Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt announced the elimination of men’s indoor and outdoor track, men’s swimming and diving and women’s lacrosse. In addition to budget constraints, Hocutt cited Title IX as the reason for the cuts, describing them as the first steps in “the development of a comprehensive gender equity plan.”
Title IX, first implemented in 1972, forbids sex discrimination in schools that receive public funds. The original statute said nothing about sports, let alone quotas or strict gender proportionality in athletic programs. But feminist busybodies in the Carter administration invented the “proportionality test,” which dictates that the proportion of men and women in college athletics must be roughly equal to that of the student population.
Proportionality is one of three ways that schools can demonstrate compliance with Title IX. Schools can also comply by proving they have “continually expanded” athletic opportunities for women or that female athletes’ interests have been “adequately accommodated,” according to the NCAA’s Web site. However, since the other two conditions are highly subjective, proportionality is the only option guaranteed to prevent Title IX lawsuits.
Unfortunately, gender proportionality in sports is in direct conflict with human reality. Every reasonable person realizes that men are generally more interested in athletics than women — a fact that remains easily measurable despite decades of feminist bullying.
For example, a Brown University study of incoming college freshmen found that 50 percent of men expressed interest in joining a sports team, but only 30 percent of women did. According to the Media Research Institute’s Web site, 75 to 80 percent of ESPN viewers are men. And, according to the NCAA, the vast majority of “walk-on” college athletes are men. Walk-ons are non-scholarship students who try out for a team after recruitment has concluded. The fact that many more men than women are willing to sit on the bench for years, with little chance of starting in a game, says something about men’s relative interest in sports. Women athletes might be just as dedicated to their sport as men, but they are fewer in number.
This gender disparity seems to bother no one except the ruthless busybodies responsible for enforcing Title IX. Countless teams have been eliminated to create the illusion that women are just as eager as men to play sports. A recent report by the College Sports Council found that 2,200 men’s teams have been eliminated since 1981.
In addition to cutting men’s teams, many universities create women’s teams for sports that are easy to learn (such as crew) and offer athletic scholarships to students with no experience, according to a 2005 Eagle Forum report. As hundreds of male athletes lose their scholarships after years of hard work, women get full rides for sports they’ve never played. This is the feminists’ idea of “fairness.”
Of course, some feminists have other motives for supporting a law that forces elimination of male teams. The Feminist Majority Foundation had this to say about men’s sports on its Web site: “By encouraging boys to become aggressive, violent athletes, and by encouraging girls to cheer for them, we perpetuate the cycle of male aggression and violence against women.”
Ironically, the bureaucrats dictating “gender equity” in college sports have also inadvertently hurt female athletes. Since Title IX reduces athletics to a numbers game, departments often cut teams indiscriminately until they achieve proportion — and some of the axed athletes are women.
It’s time for students to pressure Congress to ban the proportionality test from Title IX enforcement. College athletic departments should be able to address the unique needs of student athletes as they see fit, without being forced to fill arbitrary quotas. The gender-equity police may be displeased with human nature, but that doesn’t give them the right to destroy teams that men — and women — love.
Ashley Herzog is a junior journalism major. Send her an e-mail at
Nice....
Thanks for the rant...but please, what does Title IX have to do with the cuts at OU? NOTHING! Did you miss the last 17 pages of the thread? OU WAS AND STILL IS IN TITLE IX COMPLIANCE!
Here is why the Ohio University AD said they are dropping Men's Track and Field
Those factors included keeping the department from continuing to operate under a deficit, complying with Title IX standards of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and improving the quality of the sports programs offered at OU.
Now we all know it is not Title IX, but it is nice to hide behind. Plus, OU is only going to save about $17,000 by getting rid of men's outdoor T&F. And we can only guess they are going to improve the quality of their football team..
The opinion of the Women's Sport Foundation on the recent Division I cuts to men's sports.
not a Title IX issue, a football issue.
From the article in 2001 "The problem is not Title IX. The problem is college presidents not putting a stop to the embarrassing waste of money in football and men's basketball programs. There are no fiscal controls in place. Alumni at private colleges, and state legislators in the case of public institutions, should be calling for investigations of misuse of funds. Just because the football and/or basketball teams bring in money at the gate doesn't mean they have a right to spend it however they wish and to waste it. All revenues generated by institutional activities, from tuition income to student musicals and athletic events, are institutional funds. Boards of Regents and Boards of Trustees have fiduciary responsibility to oversee these funds and ensure that these non profit educational institutions are fiscally responsible."
This is why more people need to write letters to let Presidents, AD, Trustees and elected officials what is going on and that they can't use Title IX as the reason when it is Not.
agreed, go bob cat.
Do you mean I can use these as reasons???...."keeping the department from continuing to operate under a deficit, complying with Title IX standards of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and improving the quality of the sports programs offered at OU.:
Jesus Christ. Will you guys quit your bitching. You choked against Florida twice now. You are not the cat's meow. The big 10 conference isn't the major leagues. Deal with it.
Ohio University is in Athens, Ohio. The Ohio State University is in Columbus, Ohio.
Have you written a letter to the President and AD at your old school?