The New York Times ran a fair and accurate story over the weekend regarding the recent Title IX cuts at James Madison University that Jessica has been reporting on here at Phi Beta Cons. In the article, a female athlete at JMU weighs in on the cuts after riding home from a track meet with the soon-to-be-cut men’s track team:

Title IX was created in 1972 to prevent sex discrimination, and it was needed,” Jennifer Chapman, a senior on the women’s cross-country team, which is not being eliminated, said four days later as she led a protest rally of 400 students on campus. “But look what’s happening now. We rode the bus home from Pennsylvania for four hours, 14 guys and 19 girls all crying together. How is that supposed to have been Title IX’s intent?

Read the whole article here.