Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
As if there wasn't enough to pay for at school:
Student Fees Key In Scholarship GameplanGreat.....more inane fees to pay for inane crap at UCSD.Academic Senate revamps contentious funding plan to support athletic department and scholarships.
After a year of discussion, disagreement and delay, the newest grants-in-aid proposal — which would allow UCSD to comply with NCAA athletic scholarship requirements — has been overhauled. While the initial plan would have funded the scholarships from registration fees, the Academic Senate recently endorsed a version of the proposal that would mandate an undergraduate vote on whether to pay for scholarships through a larger athletics fee next fall — a change that may have more impact than the Academic Senate has estimated.
The student-fee referendum would increase the current quarterly athletics fee of $31 per student to a level that would stabilize the department’s budget to run programs, which fell into a $300,000 debt this year.
Well, I'll at least say that the 'bright side' to this is that the students get to vote on it.
If my memory is correct, the last few attempts at raising or creating new fees have always been voted down by UCSD students. And this one will probably meet the same fate.
I've always been of the opinion that kids are going to school to learn and that sports should be left as intermural events, like two frat houses sparing off against each other in touch football. I sure as Hell don't want to pay for some jocks to be lured to school just to use it as a springboard to professional sports. I honestly do not see the advantage(s) of having college-level sports at UCSD other than there might be some alumnii that get that warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that the water polo team beat the snot out of the team from UC Davis.
I work at a university (as I am sure you can tell by your logs) where I see the misappropriation
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I work at a university (as I am sure you can tell by your logs) where I see the misappropriation of monies.
A great example is this - With a tray full of food in one of the food courts in the middle of campus, I whip out my credit card. No bueno. We don't take credit cards here because the university will not pay for the credit card machines in the student food courts. But yet, righ outside, 100ft. acrossed the Pit, are these titanium world clocks (telling time from various locations around the world) that probably cost more money than 5 years worth of credit card service at that cafe.
As far as the atheltics, this is where I am a big propoentn of paying these guys and gals. You allow them to get paid via endorsements and the unviersity gets a percentage of that money to re-invest back in their own programs. That way, the programs pay for themselves and tutition, fees, etc. don't go into athletics.
|| Posted by nunya, May 25, 2006 05:03 AM ||