[JK37]

In a legal case that started four years ago at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University, today the two parties involved have agreed to settle all Title IX issues on terms favorable to all the university’s female athletes.

The litigation started in 2009 as a run-of-the-mill Title IX case, brought by volleyball players and their coach to prevent Quinnipiac from dropping its thriving women’s program. But during the course of the litigation, the volleyball players’ lawyers uncovered numerous tactics that Quinnipiac had used to prevent university athletes from having equal educational opportunities in its athletics offerings and operations – direct, bold violations of Title IX. The case exposed that Quinnipiac purposefully undermined Title IX by engineering athletic opportunities for women that were incomparable to the opportunities provided to men. This is the first time trying many of those deceptive practices in court, and it prevailed.

http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/h ... rsity-case

I bring the board's attention to this only because: a) Liberty has had its own Title IX issues and sport casualties, and b) we have debated Title IX in general many times.

This is a windfall for proponents of Title IX. The undermining of the statute has been common practice fo ryears. Even as a person directly benefiting from Title IX myself, the subtle undermining of it - which has grown less and less subtle over time - has been sort of accepted. But to see it challenged and the challenge won in court, this is a HUGE deal.

[Purple Haize]

These are HUGE loop holes that just about every institution uses

“Roster management,” a widely-used practice of artificially under-sizing men’s teams and oversizing women’s teams, violates Title IX.
Requiring female athletes to be part of the cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams, and then counting each individual runner as three athletes, violates Title IX. The court considered, for the first time, whether some team sports should be counted the same way that individual sports are counted. All track athletes can actually compete in each competition, as opposed to some other sports, like basketball, that might merely have many “bench warmers” who do not have an opportunity to compete. In order to be counted three times, non-scholarship athletes must actually compete in competitions in all three sports. (Plaintiffs, however, were unable to put on evidence of discriminatory treatment, and so the court did not get to determine whether Quinnipiac treated these track athletes like other athletes.)

[JK37]

The way athletes are counted has always been shady. Example from my own experience: "try not to cut her from the roster until after your first competition, then she'll count toward the hole season."

[lynchburgwildcats]

The way athletes are counted has always been shady. Example from my own experience: "try not to cut her from the roster until after your first competition, then she'll count toward the hole season."

Or in the case of men, remove him from the roster if he is out for the year for medical reasons even though he never will leave the team.