At my high school, football was everything, and the entire town supported the local team. In the summer, merchants would run special football promotions. ... I knew that if I wanted to go to a good college, I would treatment have to get good grades, and I resented the implication that the only way I could get good grades was by getting special treatment. ... Many of the students attended the games, but their primary focus was on getting into college. If they talked about football at all, they usually discussed the regional college teams. ...

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"Colleges have dropped more than 400 men's athletic teams in order to produce precise proportionality between men's and women's enrollments and men's and women's rates of participation in athletics" (Will). ... According to the NCAA's Gender Equity report, over the last 10 yrs., an average of 30 male athletes have been lost per college campus each year, compared to only gaining 7 female athletes. ... Big time football usually carries the most in a schools athletic program, the most expenses, the most players, but also the most revenue. Often times the footba...

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Slavery was as common as football on Sundays in the fall, before it was abolished. ... I have already experienced firsthand reverse discrimination since I have been in college. On the very first day of school, I met a Latino student and we began to talk about how he was making it through college. ... He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh. ... I've worked construction for the past three years and I still had to take a loan so I could attend college. ...

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This issue has been on the forefront of college campuses the country over; this issue is gender equality in sports, introduced in 1972 as Title IX of the Education Amendments, was put in place to set standards for universities; stating in short that no person in the United States on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, nor be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program receiving federal financial assistance (collegenews). The basis of my arguments will be the pros and cons of men vs. women in sports and the impact that women have had on ...

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In a study stated by the Equity and Disclosure Act on Community College intercollegiate athletics, Castaneda, Katsinas, and Hardy (2008) report that inequity is found most in the National Junior College Athletic Association when dealing with the salary difference among the coaches. ... For example, football has the highest budget of male sports compared to women sports whose highest budget team is basketball. That being said, football spends about an average of $100,000 per year where the women basketball teams has an expense of about $38,7033 (Castaneda, Katsinas, and Hardy 2008, p.95). ...

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" She also said that after she finished competing in the Olympics that colleges offered the best boy swimmers scholarships to continue their career in college, but for her there was nothing. She knew that to get a good job that paid decently that she had to further her education just as a man would, but she would not receive money from a college for her outstanding swimming, she had to pay for it herself. ... The OCR proposed regulations and interpretations to the colleges; also, they provided them with a set of tests and clarifications in order for colleges to gain an understanding of Ti...

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An example would be a lot of women would not take a job as a football coach even if it was offered to them due to the publics view on it being a very masculine job. ... I could have very easily started to work for my Father's company when I had graduated high school, but instead I invested in my own capital by going to college. ... McClure did has told me though that if I was to ask 1,000 millionaires that I would find out that the overwhelming majority of them had went to college or "invested in their capital by furthering their education. ... This is not the case any longer as having ...

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