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The Title IX controversy continues this week with an article from Ohio University, where significant cuts have just been made to the University Athletic Department (including eliminating lacrosse, men’s swimming and diving, and men’s indoor and outdoor track and field). Title IX is a federal statute prohibiting gender discrimination in all areas of education that receive federal funding (not just sports). In terms of athletics, a Title IX-compliant school should have roughly the same ratio of men to women in athletics as in the student population overall. Ohio University has been lagging in their Title IX compliance for some time, and because they didn’t have money to up their women’s program, they cut their men’s.

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