Title IX
...Fiscus, p.7). The overall meaning of finances with an athletic program is that the scholarships must be proportional to the number of men and women participants and it also has to be in proportion with the total student body enrollment. This is where many arguments come about. As a female collegiate athlete who is on scholarship for a sport here at Thiel College, I support this law. If it were not for this law, I probably would not be getting the opportunity that I’m getting. The majority of the people who oppose this law appear to be of the male gender, because it primarily affects them. There have been a couple of male sports that has been cut in several overall athletic programs across the country. For example, at Marquette University, they had a budget cut in there athletic department causing them to cut another men sport, wrestling. They had to do this because the money going towards men sports and women sports were not equal (Klehm & Manager, 2000). This is due to mainly high financed men’s teams for example, football. The sport football requires a large budget, for their equipment and the amount of players they hold on a team. Because there are so many men on a team and the expense of the sport, the proportion of male and female ratio become unbalanced. This is where the cutting of low budget or other men’s sports comes into action. Here at Thiel College there are no men’s volleyball because of Title IX. Thiel College’s football team carries such a large budget that it needs to equal out to the women’s budget. For this to of happened more male sports were cut back. Reading this, it sounds prejudice or unfair but as a female athlete, it is completely understandable. If Title IX did not exist it is likely colleges would be made up of male sports only because they draw more money. However, this would not be fair to females. If Thiel College had additional men sports along with football, the athletic budget would not be able to fund these sports equally. However, the ratio between men and women sports would not be one to one. The athletic program would also have to make sure that a female volleyball player was provided the same quality uniform and equipment as a male football player (Fiscus, p. 11). Volleyball has been affected by this law at several Universities. For example, at Brown University the student athletes filed a lawsuit seeking to have volleyball returned to the athletic program that had been previously cut at the University. The court then ordered that all colleges and universities return female sports that were dropped from there program (Fiscus, p.11). Here at Thiel College we do have a volleyball program for the females only. The male volleyball program is not funded by th...