[USML Announce] A Modest Proposal

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In a message dated 6/11/2006 10:39:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Bbuddhas at aol.com writes:

mandating equal scholarship money for women is like mandating equal  academic 
scholarships for D students...it's nuts



Behind you all the way.  As I said, it's just not enough.
 
But, more seriously, I'm no fan of Title IX either. However, I don't  think 
it's a men/women problem per se.  I think it's mostly a problem of  lumping the 
revenue sports (mostly football) with everything else.  Men's  programs in 
minor sports (e.g. wrestling) get killed as a result.  To the  extent a sport 
pays its own way, I don't see any reason it should be subject to  anything like 
Title IX.  The secondary problem is that numerical equality  is a poor measure 
when so many more high school boys than girls play sports--and  want to play 
sports--that numerical equality over-rewards women.
 
If Title IX were modified to eliminate its coverage of revenue sports and  to 
take into account the number of men versus women that enter college as  
athletes, I don't think I'd have much of a problem with it, and I don't think  most 
other people would, either.
 
Mark
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