... those students who compete for the Maroon and Gray before just a handful fans, without scholarship money, but with just as much spirit as any NCAA athlete. Now, when they are improving their records and proving they bleed Minuteman maroon as much as anyone. It is time for the Valley community ... the funding and school backing the clubs can barely get off the ground without a major alumni contribution. What if these cuts happened to the major sports or even worse, other departments in the Umass system? "Due to budget cuts the hockey and football teams are cut starting in the fall of ... ...

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... those students who compete for the Maroon and Gray before just a handful fans, without scholarship money, but with just as much spirit as any NCAA athlete. Now, when they are improving their records and proving they bleed Minuteman maroon as much as anyone. It is time for the Valley community ... the funding and school backing the clubs can barely get off the ground without a major alumni contribution. What if these cuts happened to the major sports or even worse, other departments in the Umass system? "Due to budget cuts the hockey and football teams are cut starting in the fall of ... ...

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... Title IX coverage, it will receive authorization to continue to spend more than it brings in, further worsening unfairness in women's sports and resulting in more men's teams being dropped. People might think that if a school chooses to field a football team that ... football. Under Title IX the NCAA currently gives many women's teams three times the scholarships available to men's teams in the equivalent sports. If they were to exclude football and distribute scholarships equally to men and women's comparable sports, success in collegiate athletics would ... not suffer. Many will argue...

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... 57percent (the national average) then that school's athletes must be at least 57 percent female. This presumes that women want to participate in sports as much as men do. There is no excection for the "nontraditional" undergraduates (students older than 23), who are now making up almost ... raisers?" states Jan Golab(5). So instead of dropping football, most colleges and universities are deciding to cut Olympic sports, such as wrestling, swimming, and gymnastics. Between 1981 and 1999, NCAA and NAIA colleges got rid of forty percent of their wrestling teams, that is one hundre seventy on...

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... in this article and framed in the context of Title IX illustrate the controversy surrounding the effects of this act in NCAA sport. The author advocates that the NCAA should fully comply with Title IX and that any discrepancy between participation of males and females in sport comes as a result ... . In order for them to attain the level of acceptance and public enthusiasm that men have achieved they must receive funding to promote their sports. Equal funding for women will give them the opportunity to strive to achieve the high status men's sport has already realized. Another argument ...

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... People want one of the effects of Title IX is for coaches of women's teams to make a comparable salary to their counterparts coaching the same men's sports. I completely disagree with that. Granted, Title IX has forced the emergence of girls/women's programs all over the nation. I believe that has been ... playing a sport. According to Susan Leitao, associate director of programs at Northeastern's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, "Girls who play sports are more likely to finish high school, they have lower pregnancy rates, and they"re less likely to take up smoking and drinking....

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