UC Berkeley faculty wants sports subsidies stopped

by E Wayne Ross on November 6, 2009

AP: UC Berkeley faculty wants sports subsidies stopped

BERKELEY, Calif. — Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school’s athletic department.
The campus Academic Senate on Thursday voted 91-68 in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for an end to campus support of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and requiring a plan for paying back loans already made.