CSUN Property
Save the Cal State Northridge land for students and faculty! The master plan should not be changed to give 28 acres to a businessman so he can make money, and CSUN might make “up to $800,000” per year. (“Public Gets A Look at New Plan for CSUN,” Feb. 26). “Up to” sounds good, but if business is bad, “down to” will happen.
CSUN is finally free of the burden of trying to make money that “kills” education land. Now, because of the hiring of a vice-president fund-raiser, William Outhouse, CSUN administrators can concentrate on making money the easy way. CSUN would not hire a VP fund-raiser like CSU former Chancellor Barry Munitz suggested several years ago. Students, faculty and other taxpayers deserve to know why, because it’s easy to see how CSUN might have raised about $50 million during the past two years, which could have saved killing four Olympic men’s sports last June when athletics was $800,000 over budget.
But CSUN finally hired that VP fund-raiser three months ago. Now CSUN need not gamble almost half of its North Campus land in a 20-year lease that will create business structures, traffic pollution and worst of all, will take away approximately 28 football fields. That’s a lot of land!
DUKE RUSSELL
Founder, Committee to Save Four
Olympic Men’s Sports at CSUN
Hollywood
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