>To the contrary; by its very nature, Title IX applies to both men's and
>women's athletics.  If a school currently has gender equity - i.e., as
>close as possible to X% of the varsity athletics opportunities being for
>the gender that makes up X% of the school's population - then raising a
>women's hockey team to varsity status would indeed violate Title IX unless
>another women's team were eliminated or a men's team were added as well.
 
 
Jeffrey,
 
You must know that gender equity is not a reality at 95% of the colleges in
the United States.  To be in compliance with Title IX, a school must be
moving in the direction of gender equity at an acceptable rate.  Cornell,
for example, is doing just that but they are not even close to having equal
# of opportunities for (or %) for men and women.  This is true of the vast
majority of schools.  Brown is currently in violation of Title IX because
they made an enormous jump toward equity several years ago but in recent
years their forward progress has been deemed unsatisfactory.  In reality,
they are closer to equity than any other Ivy.
 
 
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