WYOBISONMAN
03-26-2004, 01:04 PM
Check out this post from the Sac State board. It seems the problems in thier Athletic Department are continuing to grow. If this post is accurate, I would doubt that they will be able to continue to be Big Sky members.....
dorothy from Sactosaurus
S.F. State faces tough cuts-1/2 of athletics gone Posted 3-22-2004 15:09
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Looks like SF students will have their athletics department cut in half. That is ashame, the students couldn't keep the athletics department open for $6 a month?
Students gave the OK for three fee increases. But they shot down the athletics and intramurals proposal in last week's referendum ballot, knocking off what would have been $33 more each semester for students to pay.
The proposal asked for $32 for athletics and $1 for intramurals to maintain a level of services that include student jobs, membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the California Collegiate Athletic Association and compliance to gender equity laws under Title IX.
The referendum's failure means that athletics could be forced to eliminate half the teams, student-athletes and staff because next semester the program will lose its funding from the University General Fund to pad SF State's $2.9 million budget shortfall.
The athletics department would not comment and referred all queries to the Office of Public Information, which released the unofficial results of the March 2 and 3 elections today.
dorothy from Sactosaurus
S.F. State faces tough cuts-1/2 of athletics gone Posted 3-22-2004 15:09
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Looks like SF students will have their athletics department cut in half. That is ashame, the students couldn't keep the athletics department open for $6 a month?
Students gave the OK for three fee increases. But they shot down the athletics and intramurals proposal in last week's referendum ballot, knocking off what would have been $33 more each semester for students to pay.
The proposal asked for $32 for athletics and $1 for intramurals to maintain a level of services that include student jobs, membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the California Collegiate Athletic Association and compliance to gender equity laws under Title IX.
The referendum's failure means that athletics could be forced to eliminate half the teams, student-athletes and staff because next semester the program will lose its funding from the University General Fund to pad SF State's $2.9 million budget shortfall.
The athletics department would not comment and referred all queries to the Office of Public Information, which released the unofficial results of the March 2 and 3 elections today.