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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)

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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)
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Mansourian v. Regents of the University of California, 602 F. Supp. 3d 957 (2010)
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2010-02-08

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UCD had seven women’s teams in 1970 and added another
in 1974, thereby increasing the number of female varsity ath-
letes. The record indicates that UCD did not further expand
participation opportunities for women until 1996. The 1991
Report of the UCD Title IX Review Committee (Report) indi-
cated that UCD did not comprehensively review its compli-
ance with Title IX between 1976 and 1991. The Report also
stated that since 1976, UCD had added two women’s sports
(soccer and cross country track) but dropped two (golf and
field hockey).14 The Report concluded that UCD’s record
“cannot be termed a demonstrably responsive process of pro-
gram expansion . . . particularly when female participation
relative to male participation has been decreasing over the
past three years.” Internal UCD memoranda from directors of
the athletics program suggest that the numerical participation
gap continued to grow over the next two years.15
  14
      UCD does not dispute that it eliminated field hockey but denies that
it eliminated a women’s golf team, asserting that UCD “attempted” to start
a women’s golf team in the 1970s that “never got off the ground.” Draw-
ing all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiffs, as we must, we
credit UCD’s internal report as accurately describing the elimination of a
women’s golf team.
   15
      In 1992 an associate athletic director warned of a “backward slide in
compliance,” and in 1993 UCD’s acting athletic director noted that “the
ratio of women participating has decreased slightly in recent years.”
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   In 1995, UCD decided to add three women’s varsity teams.
The university reviewed proposals from five women’s club
teams and elevated water polo, crew and lacrosse to varsity
status. When the three new teams began competing the fol-
lowing year, the number of female athletes rose from 211 to
348, with the difference between female enrollment and
female participation in athletics dropping from twenty percent
to eleven percent.