The latest numbers show that while women's teams are making progress in terms of equity, men's teams aren't feeling much pain. If colleges are trying to comply with Title IX by dropping male athletes, they are not doing a particularly good job of it. 

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education, the total number of male athletes increased by about 2,700 between 2002-3 and 2003-4, and the number of men's teams either increased or remained steady across all divisions. The numbers of female athletes competing also hit record highs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and other organizations in college sports, according to data submitted to the department under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act of 1994. But the representation of female athletes is not anywhere close to proportional to the representation of female students at most colleges -- except for military, engineering, and technical institutions -- despite arguments from coaches of men's teams that their sports are being decimated to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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