Under Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive government funds, "proportionality" in its athletics programs--that is, the percentage of women participating in varsity sports does not mirror the percentage of women in the student body. So the school plans to cut teams to make the numbers work. So, there is a down fall to title IX after all. In the rush to achieve equality between men and women in school-sponsored sports, Title IX, a law intended to expand opportunity for women in the classroom and on the playing field, is now being used to restrict opportunity for both men and women. There have been many lawsuits against this. The article mentioned one, when a member of the women's club softball team went to the U.S. Department of Education and charged the school with discrimination for failing to give the team university-funded varsity status. This school has not yet solved this problem yet. Outcomes like this were not suppose to happen when title IX was founded. It was a law strictly prohibiting sports discrimination. There only seems to be one way out of this and that is that men lose to the University and women athletics gain from this. This could be a good and bad thing. It could potentially cause a lot more problems or possibly solve everything, what do you all think?
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