JMU Featured in USA Today Title IX Article

[TexasTerror]

Side bar lists other schools that are making cuts -- some of these moves, I hadn't heard of. The James Madison cuts got quite a bit of publicity here a few months back. Title IX is a tough thing to juggle, but 10 sports being cut? That's a big jump...

James Madison's hard cuts spur Title IX debate
By Erik Brady, USA TODAY
HARRISONBURG, Va. — For the James Madison University's women's track and field team, Saturday's meet is the final one of the season. For JMU's men's team, it is the final one, period.

JMU will shutter 10 teams — seven men's, three women's — July 1. The school says the move will bring it into compliance with Title IX, the federal law passed 35 years ago that bans sex discrimination at schools receiving federal funds.

JMU has angered both sides in a long-simmering national debate:

•Women's groups decry JMU for saying the cuts are motivated primarily by Title IX. They say that unfairly foments resentment toward, and resistance to, the law.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/other/2007-04-19-title-ix-jmu-cover_N.htm

[3rd Coast Tiger]

Sad.

[jstate83]

School's gotta do what they gotta do.
No need for people to get mad at JM for this.
They had to go by the percentage of Boy/Girl student ratio.

This evidently was the best way...................SUCK's FOR THEM KID'S THOUGH. xsmhx

[3rd Coast Tiger]

But what happens next year if they had a surge in enrollment of males students to sway the ratio closer to 50/50. Do they bring back some of those men programs? Then, five years later, the ratio sways ever more to a balanced gender enrollment?

[jstate83]

But what happens next year if they had a surge in enrollment of males students to sway the ratio closer to 50/50. Do they bring back some of those men programs? Then, five years later, the ratio sways ever more to a balanced gender enrollment?

That's the headache of this mandate.
You never know what to expect 4 or 5 years from now.

Any program you add is gonna throw the ratio off.
After so many years, schools are forced to make hard decisions.
Sure JM thought about this for a couple of years cause they saw it comming.
If they continued to do nothing, they would probably have gotten sued over it sooner or later.

[I Bleed Purple]

Title IX assumes that an equal percentage of men and women desire to play sports at a collegiate level. That's the problem I have with it.