The Daily Herald ran a weeklong article examining Title IX, the 1972 law. Title IX was created to eliminate sexual discrimination and provide equal opportunities for women at educational institutions that receive federal funding. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, are covered by the law.
This article included stories that delved into many different facets of Title IX from its history, to its current status with the Bush administration, to the Title IX case that made news in Elgin this past school year. This article examined different areas, including: (Daily Herald, 2002)
- The way Title IX has affected men's sports. Also offered solutions as to how schools can comply with Title IX regulations without eliminating opportunities for men.
- How Title IX has fueled the professional women's sports movement and why Chicago lags behind in that area.
- How Title IX has helped to create a different American woman one who is confident, assertive and self-assured.
This article further enlightens us that the Department of Education and its bureaucracy have turned Title IX into a quota system. It pushes equal outcomes versus equal opportunities. It has caused taxpayer-supported colleges to drop men's sports that have hundreds of thousands of high school participants and add women's sports (such as rowing and precision skating), which have small or no constituencies. (Daily Herald, 2002)
"Title IX singles out the only major activity where males outnumber female’s sports and creates enormous financial and legal pressures for colleges to eliminate male participants. Imagine the outcry if this elimination of participation was done to females in areas like theater, dance, chorus, etc., where women represent the majority.
This article as well includes a current example of how Title IX has gone astray recently occurred at Marquette University when the wrestling program was dropped.............
