And I use the word "spin" carefully, because any time you get into numbers, you can start doing hinky things, but some of the figures she cites are eye-opening.
Story, from SF Chronicle, starts: <<Wrestlers putting blame in wrong place Title IX isn't the real culprit Gwen Knapp Thursday, December 5, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A GROWING battle over college sports casts Title IX as a spectacular villain. In this drama, the revolutionary law that opened up athletics for women has become an amalgam of Hannibal Lecter, Darth Vader and the butler. Another college cuts wrestling, the lead victim in this story? Title IX did it. Men's track falls by the wayside? Blame Title IX. Men's swimming goes down the drain? Title IX's fingerprints are everywhere. That's how athletic directors explain themselves when they start whacking their budgets.......>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/05 /SP47388.DTL
