<p>It’s not just scholarships, but auxiliary funding. The baseball team, for instance, has plenty of money thanks to funds endowed by alumni to go to FL for spring training, but the softball team has to earn the money to go anywhere, since it’s a newer team with no endowed funds for that purpose.</p>
<p>In addition to an examination of athletic financial assistance (if looking at colleges) and the opportunities to participate, OCR will also examine the following 11 factors known as the laundry list:</p>
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<p>OCR has also added support services and recruiting to the list of factors it will analyze.</p>
<p>When OCR is looking at compliance it is looking at the entirety of the men’s program and the women’s program not individual teams although often that’s how the analysis plays out.</p>
<p>I took part in or led about 25 Title IX athletics reviews at the high school, community college, and University level when I was in OCR.</p>
<p>There was a story in a local paper about soccer tryouts a few years ago. A CC posted open tryouts for the mens and womens teams.</p>
<p>Over 100 men, all high-level premier and select players, showed up. Only a handful of women came. The womens team coach had to walk around campus looking for vaguely athletic looking females, inviting them to play, no tryout necessary. She eventually fielded a team, but only about half had ever played before and they routinely lost by 10 goals. I know this is an extreme case, but it has happened at other schools with other sports.</p>
<p>I did varsity sports in college; I strongly doubt the university would have had the women’s teams I participated in without the Title IX law being in place.</p>
<p>Title IX helps provide a level field for the future of young women like 9-year-old Sam Gordon. </p>
<p>[Kickass</a> 9-Year-Old Girl Is One of the Fastest QBs in Pee Wee Football](<a href=“Kickass 9-Year-Old Girl Is One of the Fastest QBs in Pee Wee Football”>Kickass 9-Year-Old Girl Is One of the Fastest QBs in Pee Wee Football)</p>
<p>Has anyone else read the book “The Great Migration?” It’s an interesting book about the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. In at least one Southern State–can’t recall which now–there was a law that required all Negro men to work as agricultural workers unless they got a special license, which was almost impossible to obtain for the able-bodied. The justification for the law was in part that white people couldn’t do the job because they could not withstand the grueling heat as well and without farm workers the farms wouldn’t be able to harvest their crops. The state legislators knew that almost anyone who had the choice of another job would take it and so the legislature solved that problem by decreeing that Negro men could only work as agricultural laborers. What’s interesting about the background of the law though was the legislature basically said white people couldn’t possibly survive the working conditions.</p>
<p>I know this is a tangent…but in this case it wasn’t about the inferiority of African-Americans.</p>
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<p>That is blatantly not true.</p>
<p>If Title IX is supposed to apply to ALL school activities, then why isn’t applied to activities like theater club, dance club, French club, cheer leading, etc., etc., etc. in which males continue to be grossly under represented? More girls participate in after school activities than boys IF you count ALL activities. Only counting sports participation is both dishonest and manipulative.</p>
<p>In my high school year book from 1970, girls could be cheerleaders, flag twirlers, song leaders cheering for the boys’ teams. Each boy’s team voted for a “princess” for their sport. One of my very athletic friends was chosen water polo “princess” since her brother was on the team. There is a picture of her wearing a formal dress and holding flowers with a fancy hair do. My Division 1 student athlete daughter is very grateful for the opportunities that came along for her generation both in terms of scholarships and academic opportunities. She played soccer, swam, baseball and did track and field throughout childhood.</p>
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<p>It is applied to these activities. Nor are men under-represented in the theater club or the dance club (or really any other number of clubs.) There is also nothing preventing men or women from joining the theater or dance clubs, which are not split into male and female teams anyway.</p>
<p>Cheerleading is usually counted under sports, so it doesn’t fit your point, but men can (and do) join cheerleading as well.</p>
<p>If you cite a quote, common decency holds that you cite it in its entirety.</p>
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<p>Toblin you haven’t a clue what you are talking about. Why don’t you read the Title IX regulations: [34</a> C.F.R. Part 106](<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-34cfr106.html]34”>34 C.F.R. Part 106)</p>
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<p>From the passage of Title IX in the 1970s up through the Clinton administration, cheerleading was not considered a sport. Bush fils changed that. I do not know what the Obama administration had done. I tend to believe that sideline cheerleading does not meet the definition of a sport since unlike sports teams there is no competition and there are no leagues for competition. At the high school level competitive cheer is often performed as a non-school based club. Competitive cheer at the postsecondary level might be considered a sport by some, but see the decision by the 2nd Circuit: [Appeals</a> court affirms cheerleading not a sport for Title IX - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/8245864/appeals-court-affirms-cheerleading-not-sport-title-ix]Appeals”>Appeals court affirms cheerleading not a sport for Title IX - ESPN).</p>