Title IX

Originally posted by mikeh I find it rather ironic that a federal law designed to force gender equity may in fact be hurting women. I was impressed with Jenny Thompson in refusing to accept an award from the school. What goes around. comes around.

More rowing updates. Yesterday, UNH announced the criteria for getting rid of the sports that thye did. One of the criteria is past success. The head womens rowing coach was an All American for UNH. What gratitude. If you think colleges see sports as anything but busy, you're wrong. I think that allof this issues: accessiblity to sports, steroids, and Title IX are so interrelated. What reason would a girl take male steroids other than to get a scholarship to a college that won't cancel the program. Colleges look the other way because they want results. Get good women to participate & the NCAA won't write them up about not meeting Title IX requirements (which aren't taken seriously anyway). And who really cares if the athelete graduates!!!

Originally posted by Alex I disagree on this one, NOT that I am trying to criticize the US scholarship system but I think that students should have to look for an University scholarship first for good grades other than just being good for a certain sport. At least that´s how it is in almost the rest of the world....., if anyone cares of knowing. :p Actually, football and basketball aside, I think most of the other sport's athletes are good students, and the schools look for good students as well as athletes.

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com More rowing updates. ..... I think that allof this issues: accessiblity to sports, steroids, and Title IX are so interrelated. What reason would a girl take male steroids other than to get a scholarship to a college that won't cancel the program. Colleges look the other way because they want results. Get good women to participate & the NCAA won't write them up about not meeting Title IX requirements (which aren't taken seriously anyway). And who really cares if the athelete graduates!!! I disagree on this one, NOT that I am trying to criticize the US scholarship system but I think that students should have to look for an University scholarship first for good grades other than just being good for a certain sport. At least that´s how it is in almost the rest of the world....., if anyone cares of knowing. :p

Originally posted by Alex I disagree on this one, NOT that I am trying to criticize the US scholarship system but I think that students should have to look for an University scholarship first for good grades other than just being good for a certain sport. At least that´s how it is in almost the rest of the world....., if anyone cares of knowing. :p I'm not sure what you are saying.

To put it in other terms, I think that may be the reason of using steroids for many yougers is the presure of doing better in sports to get an scholarship instead of prefering to get one for sciences, math or other. So Universities should focus on giving scholarships for those specialities other than because of sports. What happend if you get an scholarship in gymnastics for example, and you concentrate on your sport more than your professional carrier, and then you don't get to be a world class athlete?, would you be a good doctor, engineer, layer or whatever? :confused:

Originally posted by dorothyrde Actually, football and basketball aside, I think most of the other sport's athletes are good students, and the schools look for good students as well as athletes. The only thing I have to say to this is University of Cincinati(sp).

That is one school. At many schools, the non revenue sports usually have kids that are at the top of their classes. When being recruited, the schools want them to be good scholars as well as athletes. Revenue sports.....another story, but there are good students in that bunch also, just not as many, because these sports tend to be a way out a bad school situation for many of them.

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com The only thing I have to say to this is University of Cincinati(sp). What is your POINT? (And it's spelled Cincinnati.)

Meg, Thank you for correcting my spelling. I am a terrible speller. Cincinnati had a terrible time getting any of its atheletic scholarship students, in any sport to graduate for many years. I realize that the overall graduation rate is dropping for all segments of the population. But for atheletes, I was told it is still at a great low, even though it has improved.