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Title IX: Reverse Discrimination Beginning some time shortly after
the end of World War II, there has been tremendous growth in
womens athletics. For decades female athletes have been striving
to become as equally respected as their male counterparts. After
years of reaching for their goals, female athletes finally realized their
dreams in the form of Title IX. As stated by Jim Minter, former editor
of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Title IX is the federal
government telling colleges and universities that if X number of
athletic scholarships are given to males, then an equal number must
be awarded to female studentsД(AJC A14). Title IX, a United
States federal law passed in 1972, was a milestone in the history of
the womens rights movement. Female athletes could at last have
the same opportunities that male athletes had always had. But this
is not the end of the story, nor does the story have a happy ending.
There is a darker side of Title IX, a side that discriminates against
male athletes. A good example of discrimination against male
athletes involves the sport of wrestling. Not only is wrestling the
oldest sport known to man, it is also an American tradition. If the
average person in the South were asked to name his favorite
wrestler, however, that person would probably blurt out the name of
some phony professional wrestler. Why would this person be so
ignorant about the oldest sport known to man? The reason is that
Title IX has virtually wiped out collegiate wrestling in the South.
Starting back in the late l970s, SEC schools began dropping their
wrestling programs to make room for more womens sports. Today
there are only five or six colleges in the South that still have
wrestling programs. This lack of wrestling programs in the South
has significantly decreased the opportunities for ex-high school
wrestlers, like me, to continue their sport in college. Wrestling ,
however, is not the only mens sport affected by Title IX; the overall
diversity of mens collegiate sports has also decreased. At the
University of Georgia, there are ten womens sports and only seven
mens sports (“Footballs A14). Although I am not a math major, this
ratio seems anything but equal to me. Women are getting more
opportunities to compete in the sports that they enjoy than men are.
Consequently, there are more scholarships available for women.
For example, a good female volleyball player has a virtual
cornucopia of college scholarships available at her discretion,
whereas a great wrestler must look to colleges in the North to have
even the slightest chance of attempting to walk-on a team. Why are
women receiving more scholarships than men, when there