Legal Issues - College Athletics
Legal Issues - College Athletics
Title IX an insult to women
Maybe someday I’ll understand why so many people think women are incompetent and can’t survive, much less triumph, without government help and direction – but I sure don’t get it now. Case in point: I once again just came across the oft-repeated line of tennis star Jennifer Capriati, who was asked by a reporter back in 2002 about Title IX, the civil rights law passed 30 years earlier that eventually morphed into a quota system for college women and athletics. Capriati said she didn’t know what Title IX was.
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Jul 10, 2005, 19:46
Legal Issues - College Athletics
Ex-con sues Ute pair for keeping him from playing
Three years after being kept from joining the University of Utah football team because he is a convicted felon who served jail time for arson, Sione Havili is suing athletic director Chris Hill and former university president Bernie Machen. The former all-state running back from East High contends in a lawsuit filed Friday in Third District Court that Hill and Machen denied him his civil rights when they ignited a controversy and arguably changed the course of school sports history by refusing to allow him to walk on to the team seven months after he was released from the Salt Lake County Jail in 2001.
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Jul 10, 2005, 18:00
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Recent rulings please NCAA defense lawyers
TUSCALOOSA - After 21/2 years of being verbally battered, defense attorneys for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper of Chelsea left the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse with smiles Friday morning following two days of hearings before Circuit Judge Steve Wilson.
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Jul 10, 2005, 17:56
Legal Issues - College Athletics
Title IX Progress Mixed
You can see a long way back from the height of 12 feet, six inches. Perhaps even as far back as 1972, when Title IX, which helped propel Jennifer Hartig to that height, became the law of the land. But Hartig, born a decade after Title IX's passage, wasn't looking back quite that far in May, when she won the Conference USA women's pole vaulting title in Houston.
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Jul 4, 2005, 06:36
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Racial report card gives universities B-minus in sports
Sports fans across the nation often draw general assumptions about racial and gender issues in sports. They see the diversity among players and assume it must be the same in the athletic offices. College sports especially seem to play on a higher moral plane. Right?
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Jun 29, 2005, 20:49
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Fired coach's contract at issue
Whether Florida A&M University is able to stiff fired football coach Billy Joe for the rest of his contract may come down to the word "major." FAMU interim Athletic Director E. Newton Jackson Tuesday said he terminated Joe's $135,000-a-year contract because of Joe's responsibility for the program's NCAA rules violations regarding eligibility and recruiting.
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Jun 17, 2005, 10:15
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Title IX confusion calls for a clear rewrite
On June 6, the Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating a lawsuit that accuses federal officials of discriminating against male athletes in enforcing equal opportunities for women. The real issue here is that in 1972, Congress created a law with good intentions to help prevent gender discrimination, but what the statute (Title IX) really means has been left to the interpretation of the courts and to numerous "clarifications" by the Department of Education.
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Jun 13, 2005, 13:11
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Title IX suit rejected
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating a lawsuit that accuses federal officials of discriminating against male athletes in enforcing equal opportunities for women… Justices, without comment, rejected an appeal Monday from the National Wrestling Coaches Association and other groups that have been fighting federal policies under the anti-discrimination law known as Title IX.
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Jun 8, 2005, 14:19
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Flaws of Title IX evident in golf
Weber State and Utah Valley State College are fielding women's golf teams. They have coaches, tee times, schedules, equipment and scholarships. They have everything they need… Oh, except players.
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Jun 6, 2005, 14:20
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Title IX gains obvious in numbers of female athletes
Let's say you go to a school in which all the students who have brown eyes are allowed to select courses from a list of three dozen subjects while all the students with blue or hazel eyes must use a list of only four. Let's say it's been this way at your school for so long, nobody even wonders if it's "fair."
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Jun 4, 2005, 14:07
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