LOUISVILLE (U-WIRE) - The future of the men's track and men's swimming programs hang in limbo as Louisville attempts to achieve proportionality as required under Title IX of the Civil Rights act.
A regulation of Title IX requires that the ratio of men participants and women participants in athletics must be proportionate to the student enrollment at a university.
Of the 412 student athletes participating in 1996-97, 265 (64 percent) were men and 147 (36 percent) were women.
Undergraduate enrollment at Louisville is 52 percent women, 48 percent men, making the ratio of women to men athletes disproportionate in comparison to enrollment.
In order to comply with proportionality, there must be an adjustment made so that the number of female to male athletes reflects the student population.
Louisville brought a national consultant, Lamar Daniel, to campus last April to evaluate the situation.
In September, Daniel released a plan outlining how the university could achieve proportionality.
Included in the five-year plan is a suggestion to eliminate the mens swimming, mens cross-country, and men's indoor and outdoor track programs, while adding women's fast-pitch softball and women's golf to the athletic department.
01-28-98
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