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Stop The Bleeding: Title Ix And The Disappearance Of Men's Collegiate Athletic Teams, Victoria Langton

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Title IX, originally conceived to protect women from gender discrimination, has had the unfortunate and unintended effect of significantly reducing opportunities for male athletes to compete in their sports at the collegiate level. The various Department of Education opinion letters interpreting Title IX and its regulations provide three routes by which universities can comply with Title IX's requirement of equal opportunities for women to participate in collegiate athletics, one of which is proportionality between the percentage of athletic opportunities for women as compared to the percentage of women in the general population of the school. Circuit courts' current interpretation of …