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Tennis players sue Missouri State.(Missouri State University)(Brief article)

Women in Higher Education

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Four female tennis players filed a class-action suit against Missouri State University recently, alleging that the school is violating Title IX by cutting their tennis team.

Seven members of the team learned in December that the school was cutting their team, as well as four men's teams, in order to trim $350,000 from its athletics budget. The men's teams cut were tennis, indoor track, outdoor track and cross country.

"I know the men say that's not fair," said Kristen Galles, lawyer and Title IX expert who is assisting the ACLU with the lawsuit. "Actually it is. The men have had an unfair advantage that the women have not had. Missouri State's not in compliance, and as long as they're not in compliance, ...

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