News: Bad Time for Sports Overspending – Inside Higher Ed

by Melanie on 01/11/09 at 1:17 pm

Holy cow!

“Apparently the chancellor couldn’t find the funds to keep the library open even though the cost was a fraction of 1 percent of what he takes out of his discretionary funds to subsidize Intercollegiate Athletics,” he said. “The amount was less than what the football team pays to the local luxury hotel where it stay on the eve of each home game. “What does that say about the priorities of this great institution, the best public university in the country?”

via News: Bad Time for Sports Overspending – Inside Higher Ed.