Speak Out A 10/22/03

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

LET'S DO the SEMO budget math. The budget shortfall is $2.4 million. Intercollegiate athletics costs some $3.5 million and brings in just $1 million from boosters. Eliminating intercollegiate athletics would lead to a budget surplus. As a local booster has said about SEMO threatening academic programs first, the university's approach to budget problems is like "eating your children to save grocery money."

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