Thoughts about my research

The research topic I have chosen to do is on section 20 of the civil rights act of 1964, specifically Title IX. The Title basically states that no one should be segregated, based on their gender, in any activity that is federally funded. When applied to college sports the title began to cause a major issue because women were not being equally represented on the athletic terms. So to comply to the title schools had to begin cutting smaller sports in their athletic programs. I believe that the original intentions of this Law were morally correct but I believe that some universities have taken the law and manipulated the laws into discrimination to smaller less income sports.

The sources that I have been most useful to me at this moment are http://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/title-ix-fall-college-wrestling.htm, http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20100420.html, and http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9interp.html. The sources have given me many testimonies of how the Law has cut many promising young male careers short due to the execution of their particular sports program. I still think that I need some more articles on how title IX has helped women overcome discrimination or how it’s not helping women overcome it at all, hopefully that will be enough to cover all the view points and opinions I need to cover.

Some obstacles that I might encounter are opinions that I haven't already considered. The other major problems that I might encounter is biased research due to the fact that most sports articles are written by men and the Title negatively affects men, so most sports research articles will negatively portray the Law. To overcome these two problems I need to get a wider view point of the Law and how it affects women. I also need to see if the article has helped men in any way overcome any discrimination of any kind. Overall, the main problem that I need to focus on is my own personal views of the law. I need to  write the paper as unbias as possible so my personal thoughts do bot further contort the law.

5 Sources

http://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/title-ix-fall-college-wrestling.htm

·       This article tells of the problems that Title IX has caused for rising promising athletes in sports that are no longer available. The Article shows insight of high school prospects as well as collegic stars whose careers were cut during their prime. This article also shows that by fighting for a sport the college can have some impact.

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20100420.html

·         This article praises the accomplishments of Title IX. The accomplishments of making the world less segregated based on gender. The article talks about how enthusiastic the author is about the title and how the author plans on defending the Title in future arguments.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6467093

·         This is a small article but it shows some of the immediate effects of Title IX on major schools. This article specifically speaks of Delaware states men cross country team. The article shows the support that the school is giving the title and how the school backs its decision firmly.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576440014119968294.html

·         This article, found in the wall street journal, is not about college athletics but instead on how a man was charged for sexual misconduct with a student. The student gave full consent but the university over looked that consent was given and expelled the man for 3 years. The article shows that the grown woman in this instance still has the convenience of being a minor. The article brings up question because gender inequality was used to benefit the female, however Title IX was overlooked because the situation benefited the female. 

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9interp.html

·         This article goes into further detail of the Title. Giving the reader a better understanding of the Title and its original objectives back in 1964. The website also tells about what part of the government backs the Title.

Research Paper

Title IX is a part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 originally intended to eliminate all discrimination based on one's sex. Title IX states that "No person in the united states shall, on the bases 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 assistance..."  - United States Code Section 20. However, when the title was applied to colleges and specifically their sports programs at many of the primarily male dominated sports were cut because there was not an equal number of primarily female dominated sports. Or in other words not the same amount of scholarships for males and females because there were more male dominated sports than female.
The Act caused schools such as Clemson to drop some of there athletic programs to equalize the amount of male scholarships and female scholarships. The incoming classes must be affected by this change, primarily those interested in playing sports that are no longer offered at the particular university. Some of the questions that come to mind when looking at this topic are; How does this change affect the incoming classes at major universities? Is the change really beneficial to women? How does this affect scholarships with major universities? I feel that this act in no major way helps the female gender become more equalized at major universities and is merely hurting athletic programs.