On Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:04:50
Leigh Torbin wrote:
 
                Students        Athletes       # of Sports  difference in # of
School          %M    %F         %M   %F          M     F   male athletes/stu.
Boston College  47.0  53.0      61.0  39.0       17    16       +14%
Boston Univ.    48.0  52.0      60.0  40.0       13     9       +12%
Maine           53.4  46.6      61.0  39.0       10     9       +6.6%
Massachusetts   52.0  48.0      54.0  46.0       14    15       +2%
New Hampshire   43.0  57.0      56.0  44.0       13    14       +13%
Northeastern    57.0  43.0      65.5  34.5       12    10       +7.5%
ECAC
Brown           51.0  49.0      61.0  39.0       16    17       +10%
Dartmouth       53.0  47.0      57.0  43.0       20*   20*      +4%
Harvard         57.5  42.5      62.0  38.0       21    20       +4.5%
Vermont         47.2  52.8      54.0  46.0       13    13       +6.8%
 
** Providence and Yale did not respond, UMass-Lowell and Merrimack
apparently were not queried by the Globe.
 
        What worries me are BC, BU and UNH. All three have greater than a
12% gap in their two percentages. BC and BU each have over sixty percent
of their athletes male, while they are a minority overall in the student
body. Somebody better keep this from the guys in Overland Park, Kansas,
because this could be trouble.
 
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UMass-Lowell and Merrimack were not part of the survey because it only
involved those New England schools which are predominantly D1.
 
I believe that part of the problem with BC's +14% is that it is the only
school which fields a D-1A football team.  This team, I can only
speculate, probably fields more athletes than any other 2 female teams at
the school combined.  BU may have the same problem, although I doubt they
field as many players on their football team.
 
UNH has one more female sport than male, although their plus 13% is
rather large.  Once again I think this has to do with the amount of
athletes required for fielding a competitive team in several
different sports.  Women's sports such as Volleyball and Gymnastics do
not hold themselves to a 70+ person roster in order to field a
successful team.
 
With the addition of 2-3 women's teams I think you will see BU's
percentage rate drop quite a bit.  The disparity in the number of sports
offered by BU is what should be their main concern.
 
Jeff
 
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