Rosiedidyaknowzie: What's The Fuss Over Title IX?

Published: July 30, 2019, 3:17 p.m.

Title IX is a chapter of federal statute that bars discrimination in athletics, and requires parity in the number of male and female student athletes. It's sparked a series of stories by Omaha World-Herald writer Henry Cordes about the number of female athletes that are being allowed to walk-on to various female teams at Nebraska to maintain parity with male sports at NU,. But Rosie points that there is nothing new with padding rosters, even in the days since Title IX was passed in 1972,