Comments on: NCAA Spending a ‘Quiet Crisis’ http://progressconservative.com/2008/07/08/ncaa-spending-a-quiet-crisis/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NP http://progressconservative.com/2008/07/08/ncaa-spending-a-quiet-crisis/#comment-318 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:29:41 +0000 http://thebigstick.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-318 This doesn’t surprise me (although it does sadden me). I was an admissions counselor for my alma mater after I graduated, and we were constantly making special considerations for athletic recruits, and while the football team got new uniforms, better equipment, more funding for whatever, the academic clubs were required to raise their own funds, the English Department offices were in the basement of a residence hall (nothing like hearing toilets flush during a lecture about Odysseus being tossed about the ocean!), and heating was hit-and-miss in the upperclassmen residence hall.

I admit that, as a private college, much of the funding for various things came from alumni and community contributions. *However,* any money given to the “general fund” was handed out at the discretion of the Powers That Be, which has led me to decide that, as an alumna, I will *never* donate to the general fund.

Nothing like the administration of a college deciding that money that was donated by a social work graduate passionate about her department should go to building the new weight room….

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