I found Ashley Herzog's piece on the effects of Title IX on university athletes profoundly offensive. Ms. Herzog's statements about feminists were extremely inflammatory and baseless. The author of this piece seems to be unaware of the fact that the same feminist-busybodies who fought for the supposedly unfair quotas and gender-proportionality in publicly funded university sports programs also fought hard for Ms. Herzog's right to equal access to educational opportunities, as well as many other rights that college women now take for granted, including the right to live off-campus with a male partner and the right to live on-campus unmolested by strict dress codes and curfews. Apparently Ms. Herzog did not research the Title IX amendments very carefully. Section 1681 of the educational amendments of 1972 states that 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. What follows is a list of exceptions to this, none of which include collegiate athletic programs. Although Title IX says nothing directly about university sports programs, they are not included as exceptions in the language of the amendment. It can be easily inferred that this means that collegiate athletics are, in fact, included in Title IX.
Mazy Hayes is a junior Art History major.
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