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Originally Posted by MTI
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
While most people think about women's sports programs, it also applied to academic and technical education as well as physical education.
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40 years is about time it should get revisited. The proportionality clause causes many athletic programs to limit men's sports that are not football or basketball. Since most colleges have football and there is not a single or even two women's sports that can equal a football roster, other men's sports often suffer when there are subpar athletic directors. Many smaller men's sports have ended up getting cut just to meet this clause when athletic directors can not find another way (not that they often try too hard).
I don't have all the answers, but one possibility is to take football out of the equation of "proportionality".