Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxu!welsch From: welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: BAD USA Supreme Court Decision Message-ID: <329@houxu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:11:30 EST Article-I.D.: houxu.329 Posted: Sat Mar 3 09:11:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 02:38:12 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 47 In the Grove City College paper work case, the USA Supreme Court made the worst possible of all possible decisions that it could possibly make. First, the case. The parties are the US. government vs. Grove City College. The issue is whether or not the college must conform to the bureaucracy as defined in Title IX to ensure that the college was not discriminating against women. There was no charge of sex discrimination! The college's position was that it received no federal monies and hence was not subject to the bureaucracy. The government's position was that the students attending Grove City received tuition aide from the federal government and these indirect federal monies made the college subject to Title IX's paper work burden. The case was relatively simple, all the court had to determine was whether or not Grove City was receiving federal aide as defined by Title IX. The court determined yes, Grove City was receiving federal aide, a bad decision. Why bad? The issue is one of just how many hands must the money pass through before it has lost the stench of coming from the federal government. Passing through the student's hands was insufficient. Will passing through the college's hands be sufficient, or must every organization that deals with the college be subject to the same paper work. My point is that this has opened up a Pandora's box of ways the government can add paper work and its tentacles to our lives. But, the Reagan administration, and our Republican appointed Supreme Court was not satisfied with a yes do paper work or no don't do paper work decision. NO, the court felt it necessary to multiply the paper work by rewriting the law, and making it worse! How? By saying that only that portion of the school that receives the money, prove that it doesn't discriminate. Now instead of the college filling out the paper work once, each part of college that receives federal aide must fill out paper work, and those parts that don't must be super careful with accounting to prove that no dollar of indirect federal aide slips through. UGH. To boot, athletics where women were making gains on college campuses, does not generally receive federal aide. NOW the programs at at the big football schools can ignore women athletes completely and not worry about Title IX. IN short the Supreme Court made the worst of all decisions, by subjecting us to more paper work and allowing more sex discrimination. This to get after a school that doesn't discriminate. Larry Welsch houxu!welsch