Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Cal Cuts Three Sports: Baseball, Gymnastics, Lacrosse

And rugby gets reassigned to "varsity club" status- which means that they have to raise their own funds... rugby is only the most successful sport in university history...

163 athletes are affected as the school is cutting four million dollars from their budgets...

"We went two years without hiring faculty, where we went a year with furloughs, where we laid off 500 low paid workers which we hated to do. We can't justify university support of athletic at the level of $10 million, $15 million or $20 million. It's just not possible," Cal Chancellor Robert Birgenau said in his dirge of a press conference.

Lyanne Melendez is in Berkeley with the bad news...
((HT: KGO-TV San Francisco))

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