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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1758717, member: 3609"] Title IX is designed to protect [U]any[/U] student facing [U]any[/U] sort of discrimination by an academic institution receiving Federal money either directly (like research money) or through its students (like Pell Grants); it's not just designed for protecting women. The context that most of us view it is on sports boards discussing how opportunities for men are held back (expanding D-1 MLax) or sports are disbanded (wrestling) to help the athletic departments comply with Title IX that makes us think it's designed to protect women. The leading cause of non-compliance by schools is the 65 or 85 scholarships for D-1 football (as well the other expenses it has). D-1 schools that don't have varsity football don't have deal with that handicap to compliance. Look at Marquette. It doesn't have a varsity football team, so I would be shocked if their men's and women's sports are not very close to being fully compliant with Title IX based on the male/female ratio of their students. The Ivies work on the D-3 model, so their athletes have to apply for financial aid through the regular process used by all students, eliminating the primary Title IX problem right there. Their Title IX problem is trying to get the expenditures for their sports programs to be relatively the same. For them, if they're maximizing the number of women's teams; giving them full access to all athletic department facilities; and allocating the women's teams a budget that funds just about any reasonable request, they should be OK in the eyes of the Department of Education, the Title IX enforcement arm. Revenue generation has nothing to do with any aspect of Title IX. Senator John Tower of Texas tried to get football exempted from Title IX about the time it was enacted, primarily using the argument it made money and paid for everything else, and was turned down. Schools make money from their patents, but discrimination of any sort in that money-making area is not exempted from Title IX. [/QUOTE]

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