As you may know, the Department of Education has created a blue-ribbon panel to look at Title IX and its enforcement. This panel is starting its work soon, and will be making a final report in January.    We have received word that it is very important that those who care about the issue contact the Office of Civil Rights with our letters and emails right away. Those who favor the current enforcement quota have sent in many, many more letters and emails than those who oppose proportionality. Those that seek change must make their voice heard, or it will drowned out by those fighting for the status quo.    We ask that you take time some time today to send in an email and a FAX a letter to the OCR. It can be short, but must stress that you oppose the quota and seek change.    PLEASE NOTE (from OCR web page): Due to recent changes in mail processing, delivery and handling times have increased. We encourage students and parents, representatives of education institutions, and other OCR customers to use e-mail or fax to communicate with OCR when possible.    SEND LETTERS TO:   Office for Civil Rights  U.S. Department of Education  400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.  Mary E. Switzer Building  Washington D.C. 20202    Telephone: 1-800-421-3481  FAX: 202-205-9862    SEND EMAILS TO:  OCR@ed.gov     A few points to consider in your short message to the OCR:  * Title IX is a good law that is being enforced in a way that is very bad and unfair. The unintended consequences of the law's enforcement are harming sports opportunities for men. It does not reflect the original intent of the law, to provide fair opportunity for all.  * Proportionality, the primary enforcement mechanism for Title IX compliance, is a strict gender quota which should be abolished.  * The loss of men's sports opportunity due to the Title IX quota is harming the U.S. Olympic movement.  * If you can give a personal example of lost sports opportunity, you should include this in the letter.  * Ask the blue-ribbon panel to restore Title IX to its original intent by eliminating proportionality and developing a more fair method for compliance.    Take the challenge. Register your opinion on this issue... Please share this message with your friends and acquaintances who might wish to participate.