Friday, April 24, 2009
Every part of the University is feeling the pressures of budget cuts. Student Senate examined the possibility of lowering the women’s and nonrevenue sports fee from $40 to $35 to help with cuts in other areas. Chancellor Hemenway, however, has been adamant about leaving the fee as is. With his departure from the University nearing, the chancellor should not overturn the Senate’s vote regarding this fee cut, and Senate should attempt once again to lower this fee next year.
Of the current fee, $35 is under contractual obligation while $5 could be put on the chopping block. Nonrevenue sports would still be receiving the contracted amount, and other fees that have a more direct benefit to a larger mass of students would be prevented from suffering cuts.
President-elect Mason Heilman said he was glad the fee remained at $40 this semester because it avoided a potential fight with the chancellor. Heilman said that next year Student Senate would have to examine the budget to see about this fee’s potential to be cut.
“We’re going to have to work with the new chancellor on fees and see where he or she is comfortable cutting,” Heilman said,
Heilman also said he would be reluctant to cut a fee voted on by students. The fee increased funding for women’s and nonrevenue sports when it was passed by students in 2006, therefore making it a student-voted fee.
It’s important to take into account that this fee would simply be decreased, while other fees that benefit students have been under the threat of being cut completely. Heilman said that the cut would probably amount to a significant amount of money being lost but that perhaps the athletics department could cover additional costs until the budget allowed the increase again.
Mike Thompson, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said he supported the idea to decrease the fee. Thompson said that everyone was feeling the pressures of the current state of the economy and that as long as the programs still received funding, he was sure they could make do with a reduced amount.
A $5 reduction would help the budget Student Senate is wrestling with and help spare other student benefits from being completely cut. New leadership shouldn’t be quite so reluctant to allow Student Senate to pass this reduction.
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Editorial: Chancellor should support Senate lowering nonrevenue sports fee
"President-elect Mason Heilman said he was glad the fee remained at $40 this semester"
"The commission unanimously found Heilman guilty of using an academic listserv to promote the election of a candidate. He was fined $250."
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2009/apr/21/candidates_fined/
I have never won a Hearst Award for Journalism, but it seems these two seemingly non-related sentences might actually be related. Do you know which listserv it was the elections commission thought Mason was sending messages to?
The first platform listed in their blast-email from Stuckey and Mason was "Decreasing the All-Sports Combo by $15." Considering this was not usually their lead talking point, it's not illogical to think it was targeted to people who have sports passes. That listserv has thousands of people on it. The election was decided by 95 votes. The people who support the athletics fee won because of a blast email that the elections commission ruled illegal.
Editorial: Chancellor should support Senate lowering nonrevenue sports fee
The notion of cutting academic stuff right and left but not taking just $5 off athletics (not academic) bothers me. I understand that Hemenway probably figures that, in a roundabout way, the university would probably lose more money in the long term due to athletics donations falling off. Still, this is a recession, and "we need to make sacrifices" is a common cliche. Not even the venerated Athletics Department (TM) should be exempt.
Editorial: Chancellor should support Senate lowering nonrevenue sports fee
The University wasn't founded to start professional sports teams that make hundreds of millions of dollars annually, it was created for academics. Stop letting your student fees line the pockets of Lew Perkins. Don't stop at reducing it - demand the fee be ELIMINATED. KU Athletics is a PRIVATE corporation. They do not spend their revenue on better classrooms or cheaper textbooks. They waste it on easily observed, multi-million dollar practice fields and $90,000 tree lines to block the poorly designed practice facility while simultaneously robbing students of on campus parking. They are the most wasteful group on campus and they have no consideration when it comes to our money. This is our University and our money. It's time to do something about it.
Editorial: Chancellor should support Senate lowering nonrevenue sports fee
PREACH IT BROTHER
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