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Berkeley’s Grand Project Seems Similar to UCLA’s

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From the San Francisco Chronicle: UC Berkeley’s plan to sell special football seats to pay off nearly half a billion dollars in stadium debt has long inspired skepticism, as if Cal were setting up a lemonade stand to finance a home mortgage. True, each of those chairs at the newly renovated Memorial Stadium costs $40,000 to $250,000 and is yours for 40 or 50 years. But even Cal officials, who had said they would sell all 2,902 pricey seats by this month, grew skeptical of their own claims last fall. The latest figures show sales have stagnated at 1,857 seats. Declined,…

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UC-Berkeley Reports/Concerns About Costs of Athletic Program

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Various reports on the issue are listed below. Chancellor’s response to reports:http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/07/12_athleticsreport.shtml Report of Chancellor’s Advisory Committee:http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/07/IA-Council-Report.pdf Report of Academic Senate Task Force:http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/pdf/Task_Force_on_Intercollegiate_Athletics_Interim_Report.pdf A news account of the Berkeley controversy is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/07/13/MNED1ED854.DTL Note: At an Academic Senate forum on the budget last year, VC Olsen indicated that UCLA does not spend general fund monies on its athletic program. Prof. Don Morrison of Anderson, who has been much involved with the UCLA athletics program over the years, tells me the UCLA senate committee that oversees the athletics program was consulted by the Berkeley senate committee in preparing its report.