Quote of the Day

In the end, you'll know which people really

love you. They're the ones who see you for

who you are and, no matter what, always

find a way to be at your side.

Randal Keith "RK" Milholland

KU Title IX Complaint

Yes, that pendulum is swinging the other way, folks.

Proportionality proponents (try saying that ten times fast) have damaged sports like men's swimming and wrestling by forcing their quota system on schools.

Kansas now has too many women athletes. Will proportionality be used to eliminate women's programs? Will they need roster caps? Or, will the Jayhawks come to their senses and return men's swimming to varsity status?

Read more here.

Neugent said that 4 percent more women than men participate in sports at KU, while enrollment figures remain essentially even.

No men’s programs have been added at KU since golf was added 73 years ago, he said, and a petition signed by about 30 students interested in a men’s swimming and diving team has been registered with the athletic department, he said.

Using that information, Neugent claimed KU was no longer in compliance with Title IX.

Quote of the Day

Build a system that even a fool can use,

and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw

Gotta Love the Double Standard

Fewer males are going to college these days. Undergraduate women outnumber men. No arguing that, is there?

Reminder:

Proportionality became a dirty word in college athletics. It meant cuts in funding, roster caps, and dropped programs for men's athletics.

Since interest in college athletics is higher among males, proportionality just doesn't make sense.

Okay, back to the point:

Rather than attend college, many young men are now opting for military or trade careers. Some end up in prison.

Others move into their parents' basement and split time between gaming and updating Wikipedia.

What should universities do about the crisis of dropping male enrollment?

Shouldn't Title IX compliance watchdogs demand immediate action to limit female college admission?

Shouldn't schools impose quotas to give males an advantage in the admission process?

Leslie Brueckner, a lawyer with Public Justice, told Inside Higher Education that “Women should not be made to pay the price for the fact that fewer men are interested in seeking higher education.

Of course, men should be made to pay the price for the fact that fewer women are interested in participating in college athletics...

Title IX Backlash

The Title IX reformers are gaining ground. We need to continue to speak out on the damage Title IX quotas are doing to men's athletics.

Quotas aren't working. People are waking up to that fact.

Listen to this short interview with the former head of the Ivy League:

Jeffrey H. Orleans: Making College Sports Accessible - and Equitable

Orleans was a federal civil rights attorney who helped play "...a significant role in implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972..."

I guess we can look at this interview as an apology of some sort. Something along the lines of "Sorry about those unintended consequences, guys..."

Quote of the Day

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Quote of the Day

We have too many high sounding words, and

too few actions that correspond with them.



Abigail Smith Adams

Quote of the Day

The ability to learn faster than your

competitors may be the only

sustainable competitive advantage.

Arie de Geus

Quote of the Day

Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction

upon the good, their power is transient and their

punishment certain; and that innocence, though

oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by

patience, finally triumph over misfortune!

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Quote of the Day

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

The problem is never how to get new, innovative
thoughts into your mind, but how to get old
ones out. Every mind is a building filled
with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner
of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.



Dee Ward Hock

Quote of the Day

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone

escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible.

Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Quote of the Day

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

Whoever he may be, and wherever he

may be placed, the man who thinks

becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

Quote of the Day

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't

live long enough to make them all yourself.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Pics II

Junior had a good weekend in San Angelo:

Watch out for that freshman in the camo hat - he's going to surprise some people in February!

Pics

Leon found the camera and sent a few pics from the September trip:

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

The only thing worse than a man

you can't control is a man you can.

Margo Kaufman

Quote of the Day

Never ascribe to malice that which can

adequately be explained by incompetence.

Napoleon Boneparte

Quote of the Day

There are people who think that everything

one does with a serious face is sensible.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of the Day

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it.

It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts.

It's shaving a piece of reality off.

Frank Warren Snepp

UIL Legislative Council

The UIL approved the addition of one state track meet competitor in each division. Must mean they're now running on a 9-lane track, right?

The University of Texas needs to break ground on that twenty-four lane pool immediately.

Rumor is, the Legislative Council also decided to change the entry deadline for district swimming from the current ten days out to five days out. No word on when that rule will go into effect.

What about water polo, you ask?

What are you, some kind of trouble-maker?

Okay, here's the scoop. They were on the agenda to present their annual proposal to add polo as a UIL sport, but the presentation wasn't made.

On a related note, bowling will not be added as a UIL sport. Read more here.

You want more polo news? Look up at the title of the blog, smart-alec.

Okay, one more. Read about the big high school polo split here.

There! Are y'all happy now?

Quote of the Day

How can you tell a communist? Well, it's someone

who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you

tell an anti-Communist? It's someone

who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Quote of the Day

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see

that we make mistakes...we make mistakes

because the easiest and most comfortable

course for us is to seek insight where it

accords with our emotions -

especially selfish ones.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Quote of the Day

It's discouraging to think how many people are

shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Sir Noël Peirce Coward

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

A wise man gets more use from his

enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

Quote of the Day

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each

man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to

him and only him (through his reasoning mind)

to decide which he wants to be.

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (a.k.a. Ayn Rand)

Quote of the Day

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"

until you can find a rock.

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Quote of the Day

Integrity without knowledge is weak

and useless, and knowledge without

integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day

Marvelous Truth, confront us at

every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

Quote of the Day

Although prepared for martyrdom,

I prefer that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day

Most men pursue pleasure with such

breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

Quote of the Day

Talking much about oneself can also

be a means to conceal oneself.



Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of the Day

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying

out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

Sir William Gerald Golding

Quote of the Day

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a

role model I have the responsibility to let

young people know that you can make

a mistake and come back from it.

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

Quote of the Day

To avoid criticism do nothing,

say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

By all means marry; if you get a good wife,

you'll be happy. If you get a bad one,

you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Quote of the Day

A discovery is said to be an accident

meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt

Quote of the Day

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter

Quote of the Day

Trust yourself.

Think for yourself.

Act for yourself.

Speak for yourself.

Be yourself.

Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Quote of the Day

People who work sitting down get paid

more than people who work standing up.

Frederic Ogden Nash

On Target

Read Memo to the NCAA: Title IX is obsolete by Lisa Lewis here.

Something stinks here, and it’s Title IX.