SOUND OFF.Byline: The Register-Guard Don't weaken Title IX Concerning Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: In March of 2005, the U.S. Department of Education issued an advisory to colleges and universities stating that they could show their compliance through use of e-mailed surveys to gauge women's interest in sports participation. The method of e-mail reply shifts the burden onto female students to show that the school should add additional sports opportunities for them. This perpetuates outdated stereotypes that women are not interested in sports, when statistics prove otherwise: 2.9 million high school girls High School Girls (女子高生 Joshi Kōsei compete for fewer than 200,000 college female athletic participation opportunities, which include preferred admissions to the nation's best colleges for nonscholarship athletes and more than $300 million in athletic scholarship An athletic scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university awarded to an individual based predominantly on their ability to play in a sport. They are common in the United States, but in many countries they are rare or non-existent. dollars. Men don't have to answer e-mails to prove their interest in sports - why should women? Girls thrive when they participate in sports and are less likely to get pregnant, drop out of school, do drugs Verb 1. do drugs - use recreational drugs drug ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" inject - take by injection; "inject heroin" , smoke or develop mental illness. Girls who participate in sports develop a strong work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work and good school habits. Graduation rates are significantly higher for female athletes than for female students in general. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a 2001 report by the GAO, when all the men's teams added and dropped are computed, the result is a net gain of 36 men's teams - not a loss of participation. According to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association , in 2000 women in Division I colleges represent 53 precent of the student body yet receive only 41 percent of the participation opportunities, 43 percent of the total athletic scholarship dollars, 32 precent of recruiting dollars and 36 percent of operating budgets. These statistics clearly show that women athletes are not outpacing growth in men's sports. Rather, it is the other athletes at the same school - men in big-time sports like football and basketball - who currently enjoy the greatest proportion of opportunities, scholarships, budgets and facilities. We all should demand full enforcement of Title IX and oppose any attempts to weaken the law. The Department of Education should rescind To declare a contract void—of no legal force or binding effect—from its inception and thereby restore the parties to the positions they would have occupied had no contract ever been made. rescind v. the March 2005 clarification which weakens Title IX. ERIKA SEIFERLING Eugene Legal salute Any discusssion of former athletes entering the legal profession (`From sports to the courts,' July 24) absolutely must include my personal hero: Ancer Haggerty, who played football for Oregon in 1963 and 1964 and earned his bachelor's degree in 1967. After serving as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, including service in Vietnam, he went to Hastings College Not to be confused with University of California, Hastings College of the Law. The Hastings College campus is situated on 109 acres. Within that space sits 40 buildings, spanning from the traditional McCormick Hall built in 1883 to the gleaming Osborne Family Sports Complex/Fleharty of Law, getting his degree in 1973. He has spent his legal career in Portland - as a public defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was until joining a prestigious law firm in 1977. He had made partner before becoming a district court judge in January 1989. He served on the circuit court from March 1990 until he was appointed a U.S. District Court judge for the District of Oregon by President Clinton in 1994. JANET O'DELL DAVIES Salem |
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