In 1972, following the feminist movement, a proposed act was created to help increase the hiring rates and employment practices of federally funded women's institutions. The proposed amendment first attracted attention in 1969, when a professor and future women's activist Bernice Sandler used executive orders created by President Johnson years earlier to fight for her job at the University of Maryland. Sandler encouraged her and filed her first complaint with the Department of Labor office stating that her rights were not being taken into account. The complaint went further and affected not only the University of Maryland, but also universities that exhibited low admission rates of female employees. Sandler then joined NOW (National Organization for Women) and collaborated with Woman's Equity Action League (WEAL). Together Sandler filed 250 complaints against colleges across the nation. After the file complaints, Bernice Sandler joined Representative Judith Green's subcommittee on higher learning and appeared at a congressional meeting on women's rights. That's when Green and Sandler first proposed Title IX at the meeting. With the help of Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink, Title IX was finally introduced and drafted. The amendment had a huge impact on female collegiate athletes, but was not mentioned at the meeting. According to Title IX of Wikipedia it states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance ..”The concern of the current Title IX amendment has been revised to reflect gender equality, giving women the same opportunity as men to obtain… teams in order to comply with Title IX (Wikipedia). I believe the intent of the Title IX amendment was not to harm men's sports. It is the schools' choice to reduce sports that do not generate revenue, but they must do so within their budget and comply with the rules of the amendment. I hope they can find a way to maintain parity with both genders using the same budget. I remain optimistic that the situation will only improve when the economy starts to improve. Until then, Title IX will continue to cut men's sports for years to come, unless they can find some outsourcing money, like private schools do to maintain all their sports. Our education system has many improvements to make. I also think California is going through the worst of it as it is in a much worse financial crisis than other states.