Re: Scholarship cost

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The  longer one stays on the Forum the more likely he or she is to see the
same  subjects come up over time.  On the last occasion we went into  the
arcane subject of the "cost" of a scholarship we had  accountants,
economists, members of the UC faculty, and us poor working  slobs (at that
time I may still have been working) all debating the  issue.  That said,
while I accept the fact that it costs a college or  university something to
feed, outfit, coach, provide practice/game  facilities, transport him/her to
games, and, if the dorms are otherwise  completely full with a waiting list,
something in the way of room costs,  etc.  What no one was ever able to
convince me of was that there is a  cost for the school as to academics.  Not
a single class is added, not  a single chair in any class, not a single
professor - if you want to argue  lab fees, because the athlete may break a
test tube - OK - otherwise nada,  nil, zippo!

The exchange of monies for tuition between the athletic  department and the
rest of the school is an exchange of "funny  money."  I don't really care how
the CPA's account for it on the  school's books - that is, who gets credit
for the "revenue" from ticket  sales after deducting "expenses", it "costs"
the school nothing from an  academic standpoint - the buildings are there,
the teachers are there,  etc., etc., whether Souley sits in them or not.
Without the basketball  scholarship he's NOT there, and no one can tell me
that UC saves a nickel  on the academic side from his absence, aside possibly
from some tutoring  expense.

Richard K.



William Shakespare would be jealous, nice  Richard.