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Grant
Information:
GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team
AwardsDoes
your team demonstrate leadership in your community by
inspiring girls to get involved in sports and physical
activity? (a
la "Skate with the Novas"?)
Gatorade is awarding a
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GoGirlGo!
Ambassador Team Awards
The deadline for submissions is February 16,
2007.
Title IX Info Should the NOVAS get bus rides to
practices? 
Are the NOVAS getting their fair share
from the Minneapolis Schools? Check out these
links:
Women's Sports
Foundation
Playing Fair: A Guide to Title
IX
"Booster
Clubs
Booster clubs often
add to the budgets for athletic programs. Alumni may raise
money for specific teams or for the overall athletic program.
As a result, the school may have greater resources for
specific teams or programs. Men's sports programs have usually
had a much longer history and men in this country earn more
than women on average. As a result, the booster clubs may
provide benefits or services to the men's teams that the
women's teams don't receive.
The OCR
Investigator's Manual notes that the school still must
make sure that equivalent benefits and services are provided
to members of both sexes. If booster clubs provide benefits to
male teams, the school must make sure that the female teams
receive equal benefits. It goes on to say that if booster
clubs provide benefits and services to athletes of one sex
that the school can't provide to athletes of the other sex,
then the school has to take action to ensure that benefits and
services are equivalent for both sexes.13 The school could ask
the booster club to provide those equivalent benefits or it
could even refuse the booster club's donation.
For example, a high
school in New Mexico held post-season banquets only for the
boys' football and basketball programs. Only these two
programs generated enough revenue to help pay for banquets.
The booster club paid for dinners for team members and coaches
of these two teams. The girls' athletic program did not
receive equivalent services in terms of awards banquets. The
found the school in violation of Title IX in this area.14 (All
schools cited in this guide as violating Title IX in a
particular area agreed with the OCR to make specific changes
to come into compliance with the law.)"
Interested yet? Read more....Playing Fair: How is Title IX Applied to Athletic
Programs? Title IX Q &
A
A
Link to dozens of Links!
National Women's Law
Center
Title IX Checklist: Check it
Out
"Title IX requires equal
treatment in the provision of (1) equipment and supplies, (2)
scheduling of games and practice times, (3) travel and daily allowance, (4)
access to tutoring, (5) coaching, (6) locker rooms, (7)
practice and competitive facilities, (8) medical and training facilities and
services, (9) publicity and promotions, (10) recruitment of
student athletes, and (11) support
services"....read more
in Title IX
Factoids
"Q: Does Title IX apply to booster clubs and
other similar types of support for athletic
teams?
A: Yes. If the school permits an
individual or group to donate funds for the benefit of a
specific gender or sport, it must also make sure that benefits
and services are equivalent for both sexes.
Read more in Title IX
Factoids
"Money
The budgets
provided for male and female sports do not have to be equal:
all those football pads cost more than a field hockey stick.
Budgets can indicate where there might be a problem,
especially in areas where things do cost the same. Benefits
provided must be equal. In other words, football equipment
can't be top-of-the-line while the field hockey team tapes
together cheap, shoddy sticks.
Budget levels are
especially important where the dollar limits set by the school
cause unequal services. For example, a lack of recruiting
budget that results in few recruiting efforts for the women's
program would be considered if the men's program has a large
budget and therefore does lots of recruiting.
Budget can also
affect the number of athletes on a team. For example, a
softball coach may only carry the minimum numbers of players
because the budget for the team isn't enough to supply the
equipment, uniforms and travel costs for more athletes. At the
same time, the baseball team may have plenty of players on the
bench because their budget is much greater.
So that
time-honored excuse, "we don't have the money," isn't a good
enough answer. If the men's athletic program receives greater
benefits than the women's, the institution has three choices:
increase the benefits for the women; decrease the benefits for
the men; or some of both. Simply telling the women there isn't
enough money doesn't relieve the institution of their
responsibilities under Title IX.
Ability to
generate revenue also is not a legitimate reason for
discrimination. In Favia al v. Indiana University of
Pennsylvania , Judge Maurice B. Cohill, Jr., wrote in his
opinion, "We are also sympathetic with the fact that the
football team represents a large portion of the dominance of
men's teams over female teams at IUP. Football is a high
profile sport; it generates money through ticket sales and
undoubtedly heightens the interest of students, alumni and
potential students in the university. As a dangerous sport, it
is also expensive. Unfortunately, however, Title IX does not
provide for any exception to its requirements simply because
of a school's financial difficulties. In other words, a cash
crunch is no excuse."12 "
Read
more....Playing Fair: How is Title IX Applied to
Athletic Programs?
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