Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. Title IX.

COLLEGE SPORTS COUNCIL

Letter to Secretary Rod Paige U.S. Department of Education

Dear Secretary Paige,

You convened a Commission on Opportunity in Athletics to "collect information, analyze issues, and obtain broad public input directed at improving the application of current Federal standards for measuring equal opportunity."

For those who have seen first hand the devastation of college sports programs caused by Title IX's proportionality regulation, you gave us hope that we would see real reform. We asked ordinary citizens to take part in the process. Athletes, coaches, mothers, and fathers all concerned about the future of our collegiate sports system made tremendous sacrifices to travel to the commission meetings so that their voices could be heard.

This week you announced that you would consider only those recommendations that received unanimous consent from the commissioners. In doing so, you have granted veto power to the most extreme and uncompromising segments of the sports community.

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Instead of creating the commission, the Department of Education would have been better served if it had just convened a meeting with the Feminist Majority and the National Women's Law Center and let them write the report. This would have saved the time of those citizens who made sacrifices to participate in the hearings.

We all believed that the work of the commission would yield fair and reasonable results, but the decision to ignore the principle of majority rule is a betrayal of our trust and a cold slap in the face of those who put faith in the democratic process.

Sincerely,
Eric Pearson
Chairman,
College Sports Council

Part 1   Women enjoy a distinct advantage over men in college athletics.
Part 2   Bakke believed that his rejections were in direct violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment.
Part 3   Football seems to be the issue when dealing with scholarships. A school is permitted 85 scholarships for football.
Part 4   When Title IX was created it was crafted with intent to make it easy for schools to comply with its guidelines.
Part 5   For the first time since 1968, the USA freestyle wrestlers failed to win a single gold medal.
Part 6   Every college is required to have a designated Title IX coordinator.
Part 7   Over 110,000 women participated in intercollegiate sports. Where as in 1971 just about 25,000 participated.

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