A short but somewhat informative article about the issues surrounding competitive cheerleading and its potential to resolve some schools' Title IX issues around opportunities. Appropriate given the recent attempt by Quinnipiac to earn compliance by cutting a more traditional sport (volleyball) and add cheerleading.This article focuses on high schools, though it does mention Maryland, which became the first college or university to elevate competitive cheer to varsity status a few years ago.Across the country 15 states (or rather their high school athletics/activities associations) have sanctioned competitive cheerleading as a varsity sport. Pennsylvania is considering adding the sport and currently doing research into how it would affect equity issues and how other states have implemented it.The addition of cheerleading has been called "a quick fix" and this is part of the problem. Why schools/states/administrators think that it is so easy to implement cheerleading over

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