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From: welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: BAD USA Supreme Court Decision
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Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:11:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  3 09:11:30 1984
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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
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