Women's Hoops Blog

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

The Women's Sports Foundation has come out with its response to the new Title IX rules.
This survey would create a presumption of compliance with Title IX, as long as the school did not recently drop a women's team or had a recent request for elevation of women's club sport to varsity status. Once the survey is administered, the burden of demonstrating compliance with Prong 3 would shift from the college or school to the athlete. In essence, the institution would enjoy a presumption of compliance, a difficult hurdle for an athlete to surmount.
It took the WSF awhile to respond to this thing, but its response is the most detailed and thorough critique yet produced from the left.

The WSF also argues that the new rules contravene both the 1979 rule and the 1996 clarification, which might mean that the OCR's action violated the APA (my own personal favorite issue).

Anyway, just read the whole thing.

Thanks to Roni for the heads up. Roni also had a partial change of heart about the whole Liberty thing. I think we've all gotten closer to the right track (thanks, brother).