At 09:49 PM 2/17/98 -0600, John Edwards wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Randy May wrote:
>
>> Now that women's programs are cropping up all over (or are rumored to) how
>> will this affect title IV? (or vice versa) will schools have to award
varsity
>> status to one mens program too?
>
>The main effect of the increase in women's hockey on Title IX will be
>that the schools who add it will be closer to compliance, but probably
>still not there. I believe it was said last year that in D-I*, only Army and
>Air Force are currently in compliance, and that is largely because their
>male-female ratio is skewed towards males.
>
 
To tackle the title ix problem, men's soccer will be moved up with women's
hockey.  actually, the general consensus in ann arbor, from people on both
club women's hockey and club soccer, is that they're really only moving the
hockey to varsity so they can upgrade soccer.
 
                                        -josh
 
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