We'll see if this one stays up:
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want to write about something Judge Starr said toward the end of the hearing. Congressman John Tierney (D-MA) asked Judge Starr a question starting at 2:15:37 of the hearing, about why Baylor's financial aid to women was not in alignment with Baylor's women's sports participation. Tierney explained that in 2012-13, Baylor spent 56 cents for men's financial aid and only 44 for women's, but that the participation rates would indicate the funding should be more like 42 cents to men and 58 to women, in order to comply with the financial aid portions of Title IX (See my full primer on Title IX In Its Own Words if you want to understand more on this). Rep. Tierney asked Judge Starr to explain, and this is my transcription for that portion of the testimony of the Honorable Kenneth Starr, President of the University of Baylor:quote:Rep. Tierney then asked:
"Well, that is a very fluid and dynamic process, so it may change from year to year, but if there is in fact a disparity, and I accept what you've said, it has to be addressed, so we have to come forward with explanations as to why there may be a temporary disparity. We recently created two new women's sports with scholarships in order to address the disparity, so we have for example created equestrian with a number of scholarships for women. We have created acrobatics and tumbling."quote:Judge Starr continued:
"Are you saying, you believe this is a temporary issue, you're saying this isn't a year to year thing, are you saying that with some knowledge of the facts, or are you just guessing?"quote:The rest of this article writes itself. Because Title IX data is available to the public through the Department of Education's website, I grabbed Baylor's Title IX compliance data from 2004-5 through 2012-13. The final year is the year that Rep. Tierney asked Judge Starr about and where Judge Starr implied, but never quite said, was just a temporary issue. See if you can guess whether the disparity, where male athletes receive more funding than is proportional to the number of male athletes, is temporary or pervasive:
"Well, I don't know the specifics of those, that specific disparity, so that is information to me. What I do know is the academic department, the athletic department does have to focus on this with our Title IX compliance officer, we have a Title IX compliance officer, who reviews all these kids of issues."
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I suspect you're not surprised. I probably would not have bothered to write this if Judge Starr's guess had been correct. But Judge Starr wasn't just wrong, he was wildly wrong, and Baylor's compliance on financial proportionality has gotten worse in every year since 2004. In that first year, women received slightly more than a proportional amount, and likely close enough to count as being "substantially proportionate" as is required by the Department of Education (1.4% isn't that far from 1%). But every year thereafter, men received a disproportionate amount of funding and that disparity has gotten worse.
Yes, this "temporary" disparity has gotten worse every year including the last three years, which according to Baylor's website, are all under Judge Starr's tenure as Baylor's president.
So either Judge Starr doesn't know much about the facts of his athletic department's poor compliance with the Title IX's financial aid requirements or else he does know and just chose to misrepresent the information. Either way, I would think that would make him a bad choice to be testifying about Title IX to Congress.
Full disclosure. I also made an error in my testimony, only in amount, not in import. And obviously not intentionally. You can read all about it here:http://sportsgeekonomics.tumblr.com/post/85224055693/sportsgeekonomics-regrets-the-error
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