‘CAL IS FUCKED BECAUSE OF ITS STUPID STADIUM DEAL’
The [University of California – Berkeley] stadium debt is so large that funding may have to come out of the school’s non-athletics budget soon. The school’s largest donors donate to both the school and the athletics programs, and any disruption of sports could decrease the overall amount of donations.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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June 8th, 2017 at 9:35AM
UD, I thought you might find this story interesting re college (and high school) sports:
https://ricochet.com/436113/group-writing-school-the-computer-instructor-and-the-former-football-player/
June 8th, 2017 at 4:19PM
True, but hardly breaking news. This has been evident for years. A large part of the cost IIRC was a safety issue, because the stadium straddles a fault in earthquake country. Even so – this episode shows that even a school that’s already in a power conference can go badly wrong overspending on football.
June 9th, 2017 at 2:35PM
CAL”s stadium buildout never made sense. The school doesn’t need sports to attract admits, foreign students are a very large element of surprise he student body, so why this admin obsession with football? Or might this be nothing more than Wall Street bond palace capture of the regents?
June 9th, 2017 at 2:37PM
Foreign students are a large element of the student body. Not surprise. Damn auto correct….