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Title IX – “Fair” turned foul

Since its inception in 1972, Title IX has been an adamantly debated topic in the gender equality discussions involving collegiate athletics. Although its creators’ intentions were to require schools that receive federal funds to provide women with an equal opportunity to compete in athletics, it currently disenfranchises male athletics at City College.

This legislation has spurred the growth of female athletes in sports, and even academic success in women, which is clearly a benefit to society. The same research, however, shows a severely negative impact on men’s athletics. Much like human biorhythms and talking to plants, it is time to rethink another idea from the ’70s, because the statistics involving the loss of male teams is distressing.

“Between 1981 and 1999 university athletic departments cut 171 men’s wrestling teams, 84 men’s tennis teams, 56 men’s gymnastics teams, 27 men’s track teams, and 25 men’s swimming teams,” according to the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver in 2009.

This is still an ongoing trend; even City College is affected. A men’s soccer or water polo team has been missing from City College for years, because we have neither team available to male students. On the contrary, both sports are available to female athletes on campus. Currently there are only five male teams and three teams both male and female athletes can compete at City College, as opposed to the seven sports teams available to women.

Wasn’t Title 9 ideally supposed to make things equal instead of adversely unbalanced?

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“Why do we not have a men’s team?” women’s soccer Head Coach Jang Oh explains: “This is a gender issue, a Title IX issue.”

To voice your opinion to legislators and tell them to make common sense changes to out of touch legislation, contact the California Office of Civil Rights to formally complain about the negative ramifications of Title IX.

File a complaint at www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/pages/ocr.aspx

 

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