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Student Nondiscrimination Act Introduced in Congress
by Title IX Blog
posted January 28, 2010 at 12:48pm
Yesterday, Representative Jared Polis (D-Co.) introduced in the House of Representative a bill that would provide Title IX-like protection to LGBT students. If passed, the Student Nondiscrimination Act would offer remedies for discrimination that targets...more
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Cuts at Duquesne
by Title IX Blog
posted January 27, 2010 at 12:05pm
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh announced the other day that it will cut men's swimming and diving, men's wrestling, men's golf, and baseball. The combined cuts will result in a $1 million savings. One report claims that the athletic director has said t...more
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On the eve of the Olympics let's remember...
by After Atalanta
posted January 24, 2010 at 7:01pm
...the female ski jumpers who will not be there, of course, because the IOC's decision to keep ski jumping the only male-only winter sport kept being upheld by varying governing and judicial bodies. I was thinking yesterday when skiing in Vermont about wa...more
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St. Rose adds lacrosse
by Title IX Blog
posted January 23, 2010 at 12:33pm
Bucking the cutting trend, the College of St. Rose has announced it will add lacrosse for the 2010-11 season. Men's lacrosse. They are building a turf field as part of a general improvement of facilities project and need a team to put on it. Apparently a...more
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IOC shows more ignorance about gender
by Women's Sports Blog
posted January 23, 2010 at 12:27pm
Not content with resting on its laurels in deciding that women can't ski jump, it has declared that it will avoid further disasters like the humiliation and mistreatment of Caster Semenya...by embracing a medical model of intersex. Yeah, that'll fix a s...more
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An All-White Basketball League?
by One Sport Voice
posted January 21, 2010 at 12:57pm
If anyone thought we are living in a post-racial era in the U.S., click here and then read below.
A NASSS colleague sent an email this morning about a new basketball league (All-American Basketball Alliance) for White Americans. To be admitted and elig...more
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Paying it forward
by Title IX Blog
posted January 21, 2010 at 12:53pm
I am usually pleased to see Title IX activism anywhere, and especially so when the activist(s) who files a complaints or makes known a potentially inequitable situation has no vested interest in the situation (besides a general interest in gender equity w...more
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Article makes case for punitive damages under Title IX
by Title IX Blog
posted January 20, 2010 at 12:32pm
A student note in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review argues that Title IX punitive damages should be available to plaintiffs seeking relief from school districts that have discriminated on the basis of sex in their allocation of athletic opportunitie...more
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NCAA happenings
by Title IX Blog
posted January 17, 2010 at 7:19pm
The annual NCAA meeting concluded this weekend after a great deal of business was conducted--or at least it seemed that way from press coverage; I wasn't there. I just wanted to quickly mention two decisions.The first is in regards to sand volleyball. Des...more
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Former Texas A&M; diving coach files retaliation case
by Title IX Blog
posted January 15, 2010 at 11:36am
Kevin Wright, who was fired in September from his position as head coach of Texas A&M's diving team, has sued the university in state court, alleging he was terminated in retaliation for reporting concerns about gender discrimination in athletics. Ac...more
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Annual NCAA convention addresses arms race
by Title IX Blog
posted January 14, 2010 at 4:12pm
The NCAA is holding its annual meeting this week down in warm, sunny Georgia--well it was supposed to b warm and sunny, anyway.Of course more important things are on the agenda which should distract from the cold snap down south, including the athletics "...more
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Student whistleblower loses retaliation case
by Title IX Blog
posted January 13, 2010 at 11:37am
A court in Arizona dismissed a Title IX case against the Gilbert Public Schools, in which the plaintiff argued she was retaliated against for reporting sexual comments by her coach. The plaintiff, Madison Power, was a sophomore on the basketball team whe...more
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Complaint against Lebanon temporarily suspended
by Title IX Blog
posted January 8, 2010 at 3:10pm
A complaint brought anonymously against Lebanon High School in Oregon has been suspended for now while the school collects data on gender equity in its athletics department.At issue in the original complaint filed in November 2009 was the facilities and b...more
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District Court Upholds Title IX and JMU Sports Cuts
by Title IX Blog
posted January 6, 2010 at 12:46pm
Recently a federal district court in Virginia upheld both Title IX and James Madison University's 2006 decision to eliminate ten athletic teams -- a move that impacted more men's teams (7) than women's (3), but which corrected the underrepresentation of w...more
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The Title IX Athletics policies survive another attack
by Womenstake
posted January 5, 2010 at 2:48pm
by Dina Lassow, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
On December 30, 2009, the federal district court in western Virginia dismissed an attack on Title IX by a group called Equity in Athletics (EIA), and joined courts across the country in hol...more
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Hold the presses: no lawsuit for Semenya
by After Atalanta
posted December 29, 2009 at 2:04pm
So it turns out the rumors around Caster Semenya are still based on things that very loosely resemble facts. Semenya has no intention of suing either the ASA or IAAF. She has retained a lawyer--the same firm that represented Oscar Pistorius in battle agai...more
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A few newsy things
by After Atalanta
posted December 29, 2009 at 1:30pm
On December 22 the Canadian Supreme Court refused to hear the case of female ski jumpers trying to get into the 2010 Olympics. This was the last ditch effort of the group which has pursued legal means and made appeals to the IOC, including a letter to Pre...more
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Six Troubling Trends in Women’s Sports
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 29, 2009 at 1:13pm
I just read the greatest post on troubling trends in women’s sports. I know that what I just wrote sounds oxymoronic, but it is true. There is an article on Fair Game News that is entitled “Six troubled trends in women’s sports (and what we can d...more
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Settlement forthcoming in Canton case
by Title IX Blog
posted December 27, 2009 at 12:53pm
After turning down a settlement deal earlier this year, it seems the Canton School District in Illinois has reached an agreement with the plaintiffs. But no one is saying what that deal is--at least not until January 20, 2010 when it will be announced at ...more
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Wisconsin school district will offer girls hockey
by Title IX Blog
posted December 24, 2009 at 12:44pm
Earlier this year, high school freshman Morgan Hollowell and her father sued the Elmbrook School District in Wisconsin, challenging the district's decision to exclude girls from the hockey cooperative it is joining with another school district. Elmbrook ...more
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