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Sunday, January 21, 2007
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Humongous Dessert Plate for Minnesota Students Nicely written opinion piece by Nicholas Maxwell, a University of Minnesota student who notices that the university is a touch over budget on the stadium (it'll cost forty million more than originally announced, bringing the sum close to three hundred million -- though I suppose with this and that the amount could go higher). As with Rutgers and Oregon and Alabama, Maxwell notices that the, well, university part of the university is being bled dry while the administration spends "$288.5 million dollars to build a facility that will be used to play football during a grand total of six Saturday afternoons a year." Maxwell concludes: [A]n on-campus stadium at this point, after recent tuition increases and budget cuts of historic proportions, is a dessert menu item that should have been financed 100 percent with private money. Students should not be paying for it, taxpayers should not be paying for it and the University should not be ordering dessert when it can't afford to pay for the main course. |