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Sep 03, 2008, 10:51AM

Education Could Use Some Athletic Support

State universities across the country are facing budgetary problems and are responding with everything from tuition hikes to staff cuts. Meanwhile many of their football and basketball teams regularly turn profits. When a school fires teachers yet builds a new stadium, who are they really looking out for?

Picture yourself in Kansas University's Smith Hall. You’re in the basement, in room seven. The air conditioner doesn’t work. It’s a humid 96 degrees outside. The class is packed with 40 to 50 students. You’re trying to think and learn. But all you can focus on is the lingering body odor of everyone in the room.

Right outside the window and down the hill someone is sitting in the brand new $33 million Anderson Family Football Complex enjoying air conditioning and gigantic flat screen televisions.

Who is the University here to serve?

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