clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (03/08/84)
It is only reasonable that if you don't ask for the music, you
don't have to pay the fiddler.
What were the alternatives? Forcing any college that recieves ANY
Federal money (no matter how indirect) to abide by the same regulations as
those on the Govt dole? Denying BEOG money to students going to colleges
who don't jump through the regulatory hoop (what a 14th Admendmant violation
that would be!)?
In recent decades, the government bent has been towards making the
entire education system an arm of the government. For the problem that
this can cause, I refer you to the current controversy going on in France.
This decision is a needed beginning to reverse this trend.
Face it, folks, government control only gets TIGHTER.
Now the regulation is Title IX (a noble cause though it is) and
such things as minority enrollment, some day it will be cirriculum
and who gets tenured.
While this decision may lead to the scenarios people are projecting,
but remember that such colleges are subject to other pressures
to prevent them from gutting women's athletics, and those are the ways
that should have been used in the first place.
(Puttin' on my asbestos hat and gloves...)
--
Clyde W. Hoover @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas
(Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots)
"The ennui is overpowering" - Marvin
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