After Shuttering Programs, University Gets Sued for Title IX

In what is rapidly becoming the rule, rather than the exception, a group of female student athletes at Slippery Rock University has sued the university, pursuant to Title IX, after the university shuttered three women’s athletic programs.   While on the surface it may look like SRU sought to comply with the gender equity law by closing down five men’s programs and only three women’s programs, the female student athletes, representing the water polo, swimming and field hockey programs,