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Feds Clarify Law on College Sports
RALEIGH — After a federal commission urged changes to how the government enforces Title IX, part of a federal law that seeks to ensure equal treatment in academia, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights issued a new "clarification" of OCR’s policies to determine compliance with the measure. On the controversial issue of colleges complying with Title IX not by creating sports programs for women but by eliminating sports programs for men, the clarification letter stated that because the elimination of teams diminishes opportunities rather than enhancing opportunities, "it is contrary to the spirit of Title IX for the government to require or encourage an institution to eliminate athletic teams.”