On Sep 1, 10:38*am, Gene wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:15:39 -0700 (PDT), Tim penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Aug 31, 10:02*pm, H the K wrote:| Tim wrote:

| On Aug 31, 9:47 am, H the K wrote:
| Thank a liberal.
|
| My daughter is in collegiate sports, why should she thank either
| liberal or conservative?
|
| Without Democrat Patsy Mink, who wrote the legislation that became Title
| IX, and without Ted Kennedy, who protected Title IX and advocated for it
| throughout his career, women's athletics at universities would be where
| they were 40 years ago...an underfunded afterthought. Without Title IX,
| there would be virtually no athletic assistance for women attending college.
|
|My daughters school doesn't receive federal assistance, and if they do
|it's very minimal.
|
|My daughter receives no federal assistance because the wife and I make
|too much money, so we pay the bills.

Title IX is not about money.... it is about discrimination based on
sex. Think about men's athletics vs. women's athletics, when you were
in school.... any difference in funding from the school?


Sure the guys got more funding than the girls when I was in school,
because the guy's side of sports is more pupular, and it is still
today.

But now that you mention it, a lot of schools budgeting goes into the
sports program and in many cases academics suffer because of such.

But, what's new?