Klarinet Archive - Posting 001424.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: budget cutbacks
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:19:21 -0400

At 09:54 PM 4/23/98 -0700, Jason Hsien wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>
>|At the college level, it is my understanding that only the University of
>|Notre Dame actually MAKES money with its football program (not including
>|alumni contributions which may arise indirectly from it). Unless Jason's
>|school has a heck of a deal with those local TV stations, I'll bet they
>|don't either! By the way, Notre Dame uses the money to fund all the other
>|money-losing sports and the intramural athletic program.
>
>Well, then I am just wondering where the heck all that money in ticket sales
>and concession sales goes after all those high school football games.
>Someone mentioned a general school fund, and that's the school isn't it?
>
Coach's salary, uniforms, equipment (including weight room), lights for the
stadium (not to mention the stadium itself or rental thereof), and busses
for away games come immediately to mind.

>|
>|But all this is neither here nor there. If profit is the motive for school
>|curricula, I'd like to know how much the history department made? Or the
>|English department? Or mathematics?
>
>Around here, different departments fundraise whenever they need money. We
>usually sell with those mini-catalogs and stuff...

I don't send my kids to school to learn to be door-to-door salespeople! I
don't like it for band, either, but understand it given music's
semi-extra-curricular nature. Forcing so-called "academic" departments to
stoop to begging is reprehensible! Either fund the schools or close them!

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