{"id":7331,"date":"2016-04-11T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2016-04-10T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T01:23:38","slug":"an-off-the-wall-investigation-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/an-off-the-wall-investigation-question\/","title":{"rendered":"An off-the-wall investigation question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education is going over the University of Iowa athletics department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/education\/higher-education\/university-of-iowa-preparing-for-civil-rights-investigators-on-campus-20160408\">with a fine-toothed comb this week<\/a>. It&#8217;s a Title IX investigation based on &#8220;the September 2015 complaint alleging discrimination against women in the athletics program&#8221;, the <em>Gazette<\/em> article says, but the review is going to be pretty comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p><em>What if<\/em>&#8230;in the course of this investigation, the Department of Education decides that the pink visitors&#8217; locker rooms at Kinnick Stadium constitute a Title IX violation? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2014\/08\/29\/professors-robots-protest-u-iowas-pink-locker-room\">This line of argument has been tried before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education is going over the University of Iowa athletics department with a fine-toothed comb this week. It&#8217;s a Title IX investigation based on &#8220;the September 2015 complaint alleging discrimination against women in the athletics program&#8221;, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/an-off-the-wall-investigation-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7344,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}