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THE
ETROPOLITA
The MSC student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979
Volume 12
Issue 20
Jocks ask for athletic support Mary Anderson News Editor This spring, Metro students will vote on whether to pay more or less for the Intercollegiate Athletic Program. Students are now charged a $13 athletic fee at registration. The Athletic Advisory Committee has recommended that _the athletic fee be raised to $20, and be adjusted yearly with inflation. The Student Affairs Board voted April 1, 1987, that the $13 fee be assessed to each student on a semester basis. Prior to that, the SAB funded the athletic program out of student fee money. Students did not vote on the creation of the athletic fee. But the SAB stipulated that a referendum be held in 1990, so students could then decide whether to raise, decrease, maintain or end the fee. The referendum will also address whether to keep the fee separate, or to again have the SAB fund the athletic program out of student fee money, said Karen Thorpe, assistant vice president for Student Affairs and chair of the SAB. Thorpe also said that it is up to the SAB to set the amount of the increase of the athletic fee, if students vote to increase it. Neither the athletic fee nor the student fee has increased in the past three years. The athletic program now receives $426,000. All other programs on campus receive a combined total of $1.16 million, said Carey Wettjen at the Oct. 2, 1989, SAB meeting. Wettjen works in the Budget Office. The proposed increase will net the athletic program about another $250,000 so that the total budget request for 199091 is $683,500, according to a memo to SAB members dated Nov. 7, 1989, from William Helman, MSC athletic director. According to the memo, inflation and salary increases have amounted to $75,000 in the three years since the creation of the separate athletic fee, and sports budgets have been reduced in the effort to cope. "Although the overall increase is significant, it would not have appeared as great if there had been annual increases to cover institutional ·salary raises and inflation," the memo said. According to a summary of the 1990-91 budget recommendation, the $250,000 will entail: • $85,000 for Title IX improvements • $30,000 for clerk typist and student help • $40,000 for facility rental • $35,000 for individual sports budgets • $60,000 for administrative support On April 12, 1989, the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of F.ducation finished a review of Metro's athletic department and found several inequities between the funding of men's and women's sport. 111F11pg.5