“Today, though, about 58 percent of college students are female. Very soon, three out of five collegians will be women. Can two-thirds be far behind?”
Well, at least there’s a little good news for the guys going to college!
Title IX is about much more than sports programs. Sports is actually a small part of what the law is about.
Articles like these do a diservice by not explaining that.
“It is not the fault of girls that boys won’t work hard in the classroom.”
What can I possibly add?
What a stupid article, but it doesn’t surprise me, coming from the liberal Sports Illustrated. The reason men aren’t going to college is primarily that they don’t want to listen to the white male-bashing of the professors. They can make just as much money with an associates degree or a license from a vo-tech. Btw, my sons played 3 sports and still went to college. None of the high school male athletes from either of their classes were offered scholarships, but all of the softball girls were.
Or, get Congress to declare that football is legally in a different category. Realistically, it is. Take it out of the Department of Athletics and put it in the new Department of Entertainment or the Department of Amusing The Alumni. Football is twice the problem. It has no female analogue, and it is by far the costliest sport. Remove it from the Title IX equation, and once again young men could swim and run and jump and play tennis and lacrosse, just like young women.
I think his first idea has some merit -- though I would extend it to football and basketball, too.
I would have no problem eliminating collegiate athletics entirely -- at least as it now exists. Let students organize their own teams, and let groups of student-organized teams form their own leagues. This is how ice hockey was played in my school, and it worked just fine.