http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/sports/29cal.html?_r=1
The New York Times had published on September 28, 2010 that Cal-Berkley was forced to subsidize 5 sports programs for the upcoming seasons. Men’s baseball, rugby, gymnastics programs have been taken away due to budget cuts. Many can blame the economic recession and because money losing sports have been a burden on Cal-Berkeley. These cuts will be leaving Berkley with only 24 sports programs and affect 163 out of 800 student athletes. To comply with Title XI, woman’s gymnastics and lacrosse programs were also cut. This apparently will save Cal-Berkley 4 million dollars a year, but will highly affect the athletes that lost their scholarships and coaches that lost their coaching jobs. Berkeley offered to help the current athletes with scholarships transfer to new schools with hope of receiving a new scholarship. The school will offer these sports in a club atmosphere, but the students will need to pay if they want to play. Hopefully the sports programs that were affected by the cut will overcome this milestone and attempt to reestablish when funding for Cal sports increase. Although only 14 of 120 university sports programs made money in 2008-09 years, all the athletes in any sport program will tell you that the experience to play at a college level is priceless.
Juan Valencia Kin 332I. CSULB Fall 2010
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