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...field. There exists on college campuses a fundamental divide between athletes and their fellow students. The issue, however, is more complex than a simple division between between those who play sports and those who do not. Title IX, part of a 1972 federal law that mandates equal treatment of male and female athletes, has done much to provide athletes with equal resources. But still there lingers a persistent and intangible biased distribution of social clout between high profile male athletes and lower profile male and female athletes...
...pretend that full equality in athletics and in social dynamics involving athletes has been reached simply because of Title IX. Even if men and women’s teams have equal time on the practice fields and fencing and football receive proportionate funding, the fact remains that high profile male athletes fill a community niche that other student-athletes do not. Historically, men’s sports such as football, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse have occupied a more visible place on college campuses than other athletics. A school is more likely to receive wide acclaim for being national basketball...
...Reclaiming the Game,” written by William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton and Sarah A. Levin ’00, a majority of the statistics are broken down into three categories: male high profile athletes, male lower profile athletes, and female athletes. This distinction is interesting in and of itself, without the numbers attached to it. Football, basketball, and ice hockey are considered high profile men’s sports, while there do not seem to be any sports that are considered high profile for women. Clearly, if there is a need to separate the male sports...
...statistics speak volumes. According to a database cited in “Reclaiming the Game,” of all three demographics, male high profile athletes are the least academically qualified. In a study from 1995 that controlled for differences in race, field of study, and SAT scores, the data shows that in the Ivy League academic setting, male high profile athletic recruits significantly underperformed compared to lower profile male recruits and female recruits. In some women’s sports, athletes even outperform their non-athletic peers academically. While there are many high profile male athletes...
...unofficial but intense favoritism of high profile male athletic teams fosters an atmosphere of power of and catering to the athletes. Athletes, especially well-known males, receive more publicity, more media attention, more popularity, and more respect than their female or lower-power counterparts, even though many prove themselves consistently unable to measure up in an academic setting. In the eyes of the colleges, and in the eyes of many other students, these players are not student-athletes; they are athlete-students...