Posts Tagged ‘Title IX’

April 2 roundup

  • Schumer: ban gun ownership by persons arrested but not convicted of drug offenses [Jeff Winkler, Daily Caller]
  • Urban-farming pioneer in Oakland may come a cropper for selling produce without license [SFGate via Perry]
  • Harvard-trained Obamanauts’ revenge? Feds investigate Yale for alleged sexually harassive environment [Zincavage] Related: strings attached to federal money for university “sexual assault prevention” include mandatory student sensitivity-training attendance [TBD, more]
  • Trade dumping law as competitive shakedown mechanism [Tabarrok]
  • “Forwarding a Sentence-Long Message from a Listserv = Copyright Infringement?” [Volokh]
  • “Product Defect Case Over Ear Candle Cleared for Trial” [OnPoint News, McConnell/D&D, Abnormal Use]
  • Oh, Title IX, couldn’t you at least leave our booster club alone? [Saving Sports] Wrestling team axe is just the start for men’s sports cuts at Liberty U. [same]
  • “Wal-Mart v. Dukes [Lawyers] Ask Courts To Fix The World” [Dan Fisher, Forbes] Liptak/NYT on use of “social framework” evidence in case [Mass Tort Prof] Rhetoric about “day in court” tends to obscure actual stakes [Daniel Schwartz] More: Hans Bader, and Jon Hyman with many links.

Obama administration’s Title IX activism

The quota pressure in sports has been around for a while, but the idea of an enforcement push in hard academic disciplines may be getting extra encouragement from the very top:

Obama himself seems to have latched onto the idea. While praising Title IX’s impact on increasing women’s participation in athletics, he said, “If pursued with the necessary attention and enforcement, Title IX has the potential to make similar, striking advances in the opportunities that girls have in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (“STEM”) disciplines.” The nation’s university science, engineering, and mathematics departments may thus soon find themselves faced with the task of complying with a regulatory regime similar to the intercollegiate athletics three part test.

[Alison Somin, Federalist Society “Engage”, PDF]

More: a John Stossel segment, and cutbacks in men’s sports at Delaware.

December 23 roundup

October 5 roundup

“How Title IX Is Stifling High School Baseball in Florida”

Parents at a Brevard County school want to chip in to upgrade the local team, but that would risk triggering an impermissible gender imbalance. [Saving Sports] Also, why Title IX has been less helpful than one might think for women’s gymnastics; and Alison Schmauch has a new paper on Title IX for the Federalist Society. Update: school board rejects parents’ request (Florida Today h/t Gitarcarver, Saving Sports)

Basketball doubleheaders: men first

Title IX From Outer Space dept.: “A sports conference that always scheduled weekday basketball doubleheaders in which women’s teams played the first game — letting the men play in the later time slot — has altered the practice, after an anonymous sex discrimination complaint charged that this made the women’s games appear to be a ‘warm-up’ act for the men’s games.” [Inside Higher Ed via George Leef, NRO “Phi Beta Cons”] More: Coyote.

Court: competitive cheerleading not varsity sport

Thus achieving two of feminist litigators’ goals at once: 1) sending a message that cheerleading is not a government-approved aspiration for young women; 2) further humbling men’s college sports, since quota incentives are now likely to bring renewed pressure for budget and roster cuts at universities like Quinnipiac. Congratulations! [Inside Higher Ed, earlier here and here] More: Neal McCluskey, Cato at Liberty; Atlantic Wire.

Related: Fascinating USA Today coverage of multiple lawsuits arising from the tense relationship between men’s and women’s athletics at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania (h/t Jim Copland).