Feds weigh allegations of gender inequity in University of Minnesota

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per the STrib:

A 6-month-old federal gender discrimination investigation of University of Minnesota athletics sprang to life on school grounds this week, as U.S. Department of Education representatives combed the campus, interviewed Gophers coaches and measured square footage in locker rooms and offices.

They are here to examine whether Gophers athletics discriminates against women, a claim raised in a 2014 formal complaint to the Office of Civil Rights. Donors, former university employees and some women’s sports advocates echoed similar accusations to the Star Tribune, saying the athletics department has lost its focus on gender equity and is violating the spirit of Title IX, the 43-year-old law that bans sex discrimination in any federally supported school.

The anonymous complaint, recently obtained by the Star Tribune, said Gophers women’s sports have become an afterthought — a dozen teams with dwindling rosters receiving an inexcusably low percentage of spending. The issue reached a crescendo when university leaders drafted their ambitious $190 million plan to build new practice and training centers with a heavy focus on high-profile men’s teams.

University President Eric Kaler and Athletic Director Norwood Teague denied any bias and said the school has not wavered on fairness.

http://www.startribune.com/feds-weigh-allegations-of-gender-inequity-in-u-of-m-sports/306866861/

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So other than the football practice facility, what facility in our new plan is not going to be used by women athletes? I bet the women's basketball team can't wait to practice is that new basketball facility.
 

MadtownGopher said:
So other than the football practice facility, what facility in our new plan is not going to be used by women athletes? I bet the women's basketball team can't wait to practice is that new basketball facility.
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And why is this only an issue here? Every school has a football facility. What do they have that we apparently don't for title 9?
 


A solution to this problem? Make every sport be self-supporting. Go out and get your own big-wig donors, scholarship money, merchandising deals, etc. Quit complaining and go get your own funding. Sick of these sports that survive only because of the revenue football and men's basketball generate (and in some places men's hockey), and they have the audacity to whine, especially at an institution that already has too many needless/worthless (take your pick) athletic teams.
 

SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!

**** college kids.

Jerry Seinfeld said:
I don't play colleges, but I've heard a lot of people tell me don't go near colleges, they are so PC. They just want to use these words, thats racist, thats sexist, thats prejudice, they don't even know what they're talking about"
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I'm positive it was some Social Justice Warrior saying the girls locker room isn't as big as the boys locker room....
 

Based on this article we should build a statue for Woody. The anti-Maturi. Living up to the hype. Laser focused on becoming an elite program. Our Hero.
 

Anonymous complaints are my favorite. I won't tell you who I am or how I know but I know and you should know too.

U.S. Dept of Education springs into action!!
 



I am surprised they quoted Borton in this article without mentioning that she was fired by Teague, and thus, may have a different agenda. I am also surprised that the STrib didn't quote a single person who was willing to take a different position. Amelia presented an incredibly one-sided story here.

This is the type of mentality that could drive someone like Teague away.

Go Gophers!!
 

So we get this and we are forgiving Penn State hand and foot and we can watch North Carolina and Texas get their hands slapped!!!!
 

dtrain19 said:
Anonymous complaints are my favorite. I won't tell you who I am or how I know but I know and you should know too.

U.S. Dept of Education springs into action!!
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Probably someone inside the athletic department.
 

SelectionSunday said:
A solution to this problem? Make every sport be self-supporting. Go out and get your own big-wig donors, scholarship money, merchandising deals, etc. Quit complaining and go get your own funding. Sick of these sports that survive only because of the revenue football and men's basketball generate (and in some places men's hockey), and they have the audacity to whine, especially at an institution that already has too many needless/worthless (take your pick) athletic teams.
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Couldn't agree more SS. The success of the football and basketball teams will bring more revenue into the non-revenue producing sports, not less. Why you want to bite the two hands that feed you is beyond me. Pathetic.
 



per Pat:

Teague and Kaler should be hoping that the U.S. Department of Education representatives on campus investigating the Title IX complaint are in the group that no longer takes a look at a daily newspaper.

Otherwise, all the investigators will have to do is turn to Page C3 in Thursday’s Star Tribune for confirmation of excesses in the major men’s programs while women’s athletics become an afterthought.

All the investigators will have to do is see the headline, “Gophers’ Pitino gets $400K pay increase,’’ and the premise of the complaint will have come a long way toward being proven.

http://www.startribune.com/title-ix...of-turn-to-page-c3-of-star-tribune/306948951/

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
I am surprised they quoted Borton in this article without mentioning that she was fired by Teague, and thus, may have a different agenda. I am also surprised that the STrib didn't quote a single person who was willing to take a different position. Amelia presented an incredibly one-sided story here.

This is the type of mentality that could drive someone like Teague away.

Go Gophers!!
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The type of mentality that does not allow for an elite program in football and men's basketball. The quotes about the previous AD tell it all. Football, men's basketball and men's hockey should be treated the same as non-revenue sports. Just how the previous AD liked it.
 

SelectionSunday said:
A solution to this problem? Make every sport be self-supporting. Go out and get your own big-wig donors, scholarship money, merchandising deals, etc. Quit complaining and go get your own funding. Sick of these sports that survive only because of the revenue football and men's basketball generate (and in some places men's hockey), and they have the audacity to whine, especially at an institution that already has too many needless/worthless (take your pick) athletic teams.
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Here Here! Spot on SS
 

For this to be sexist wouldn't the men's team have to not be losing a track to run on and the women's team being told to go home? And where was the title 9 outrage when men's football had to drive to the metronome to play games?

This isn't a title 9 issue IMO as much as it is non-revenue sports crying.

You want a solution? Cut men's and women's track. There. No sexism. And now no more complaining. Done.
 

Also have no idea what the women's practice team being men has to do with anything? Don't all teams do this? Like. Even the Lynx?
 

It's amazing that these people can't recognize that a bigger pie get's them more money for their sports. They would rather fight to keep the pie small and argue and fight for their tiny slice of the tiny pie. There are only two sports that can make said pie bigger, and they aren't any of the women's teams.

Maybe we should go University of Chicago and eliminate football, AND 85 scholarships worth of women's sports.
 

balds said:
It's amazing that these people can't recognize that a bigger pie get's them more money for their sports. They would rather fight to keep the pie small and argue and fight for their tiny slice of the tiny pie. There are only two sports that can make said pie bigger, and they aren't any of the women's teams. Maybe we should go University of Chicago and eliminate football, AND 85 scholarships worth of women's sports.
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Agreed. Let's put all of our money into men's basketball, $10m contract for Richard Pitino :)
 

Non-revenue sports the University should do away with, and I say this as someone who loves the sport of golf:

Men and women golf
Men and women gymnastics
Men and women tennis

I'd certainly have rowing in there, too, but I understand the only reason it's needed. ... to counter the large number of football scholarships for Title IX reasons.
 

BleedGopher said:
I am surprised they quoted Borton in this article without mentioning that she was fired by Teague, and thus, may have a different agenda. I am also surprised that the STrib didn't quote a single person who was willing to take a different position. Amelia presented an incredibly one-sided story here.

This is the type of mentality that could drive someone like Teague away.
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+100,000,000
 

SelectionSunday said:
Non-revenue sports the University should do away with, and I say this as someone who loves the sport of golf:

Men and women golf
Men and women gymnastics
Men and women tennis

I'd certainly have rowing in there, too, but I understand the only reason it's needed. ... to counter the large number of football scholarships for Title IX reasons.
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That's a fraction of the U's budget. What's solved? Honest question since that amount they needed to save m/w golf and m gymnastics for 3 years was a paltry amount.
 

Stuff like this doesn't happen at Ohio State, Wisconsin, etc. And we wonder why we can't get to their level. It's not a coincidence.
 

Maximus said:
That's a fraction of the U's budget. What's solved? Honest question since that amount they needed to save m/w golf and m gymnastics for 3 years was a paltry amount.
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Well if you cut those sports they can't sue you for discrimination. That's probably a good start. It's also less to manage and frees up NT's time for other things, like fund raising.
 

Found this in a different Star Tribune article about the law suit-

http://www.startribune.com/complaint-alleges-gender-discrimination-against-u-athletics/289636661/

Women’s track and cross country accounted for 227 of the university’s 501 female participants (one cross country, indoor track and outdoor track athlete can count as three participants) in 2013-14 , according to the latest equity in athletics data figures. There were 388 total men’s athletes, 337 women; but in total participation there were 471 men, 501 women.

Both the men’s and women’s track teams are being moved from the new Bierman athletic village during the 2015-16 school year when construction begins. The existing track, in fact, will be destroyed as part of the that project.
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And don't forge this gem-

http://www.mndaily.com/sports/track-field/2015/01/25/university-undergo-federal-investigation-0

“I’m confused why the word Title IX is being thrown around. It’s a business,” said one member of the women’s track team.

The anonymous party who filed the complaint wrote in an email to track and field athletes that Title IX was used as “the only means I could find to save the track facility” and “my intent was not to ignore the affect [sic] this is having on the men’s team.”
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Ah, the quest for equality in today's society.... Isn't it great!
 

You should have to buy a women's sports ticket when you buy a men's. For equality.
 

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