Budget Crisis for State Colleges
I have taught at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, for 25 years and am dismayed that in your coverage (June 5-6) and your editorial (June 6) about catastrophic cuts in the budget of the CSU that athletics is never mentioned. It is as though the obscene expenditures on elitist, champagne, Division I programs such as football at San Diego State do not exist. Unfortunately they do exist and are financed to a great extent by instructional funds.
When Chancellor Barry Munitz, the California Faculty Assn. and The Times express a serious interest in how athletics are financed in the CSU at a time when programs are being cut and access is being denied to those who can least afford it, then I will believe that the emotion expressed for the future of higher education in California is genuine.
GEORGE M. LEWIS
Professor of Mathematics
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
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