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Another Victory For Title IX

InsideHigherEd reports this morning that the University of Tennessee?Martin, a Division 1 school in the Ohio Valley Conference, is dropping its men?s tennis team.

Phil Dane, athletics director, cited the ?high cost of out-of-state scholarships? and the team?s ?relatively small roster? as the reasoning for its suspension. He noted that a men?s team, and not a women?s team, was selected for removal out of consideration for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Money saved from the lost men?s program, he said, will go to support the university?s women?s programs.

In the old, pre-Title IX days men were expected to open doors for women. Now, in the post Title IX days, many men?s athletic teams expect to have the door closed on them.

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).