uidelines on how Title IX should be enforced in college sports. Colleges are required to provide “equal opportunity in the selection of sports and levels of competition” by meeting one of three tests: * Having roughly equal percentages of female athletes and female undergraduates, a condition known as "substantial proportionality." * Having a "history and continuing practice" of adding more teams and roster spots for women. * Proving that the college is "fully and effectively accommodating the interests and abilities" of women. Substantial proportionality, the first option, essentially establishes an absolute limit on the number of male athletes in an athletics department. Because more men than women typically go out for sports, that test discriminates against men. Even if colleges choose to comply with Title IX by means of the second or third options, they will have to continue expanding programs until they find themselves at substantial proportionality. Many athletics departments have tried to meet the substantial-proportionality test by eliminating men's teams or imposing caps on the number of players allowed on the rosters of existing men's teams. Last year, Miami University in Ohio, Brigham Young University, and the University of New Mexico all eliminated men's teams, including their wrestling programs. Such moves, critics say, have cost thousands of men the opportunity to play sports in college, without giving women any benefits. [22]Why is Title IX having this result? When the fed’s made Title IX, they made a huge assumption, they assumed that notwithstanding discrimination, men and women would have the same interests. When you assume something crazy, you get even crazier results. [23] Title IX mandated the number of men and women who participate in sports to be equal. Unfortunately for the men, the women’s interest is not as high as the men’s. There have been an amazing number of men’s ...
