FUNDING
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sc ale in areas sue h .is fm ilities
maintenance
A long-term solution to the
problem now waits for the next
meeting of the State Legislature
in January. One possible' ave
nue is to tie couple the Oregon
Lottery's Sports Ac turn funds
from the general lottery fund
and use that to help supple
ment the athletic budgets
The university athletic de
partments were to have1 re
reived money generated by the
Sports Action game hut when
the lottery did not bring in
enough money to covet its gen
eral fund predic I ions t he uni
versities were left with only
about $401).00(1
' It has been lip to the 1 .egis
lature. and this w ill fore e the
issue." said Rep David I)i\ (I)
hugene) "More often than not
the Legislature has shirked the
responsibility."
l)i\ said he is interested in
separating the Sports Ac then
money Irom the general lottery
lund. which would generate
approximately $.1 to $a million
a year for the athletic depart
inents lie said he believes Aye
yyould see some growth if yy e
put some money into it
Thomas Hartlett. t li.uu ellor
tor the Oregon Stiite System o)
Higher Kiiuciition. said anothei
option is to take money from
another program to help with
the (iefii it, hut added there are
no hinds available
"The question is. vvhil li is
the lesser ol some had solu
tions, " he s,iid
Neither Brand nor Bartlett
would speculate on what the
l egislature might do, and both
said they are waiting to see
vvii.it .11 tion it takes
Here is the option that no one
wants to consider: Oregon
i mild drop out of the I'ac dli 10
(inherence or drop intercolle
giate athlete s t he Board meet
mg tame in the wake of state
ments made In Brand in a re
cent Ktigene Keg/sfer (iu.ird ar
tide, in vvhii h he said that it
athletic s do not receive some
kind of help from the state the
l'Diversity mav have to drop
out of the Pai 1(1 I te went on
to sa\ he would ralliei see ( lo
gon drop athlete s altogether
tli.in move to .1 less prestigious
i onferent e
Brand's comments were ia
beied .is si ,ire t.u lit s .mil ",i
bunch ol bull In some lot ,d
legislators. but in his defense
lie said lilt1 [tress had sensa
Iionali/.ed'' his statements
I think we got their alien
tinn,'' lie said |l hopping out
ot the I’ac 10) IS the most due
predit turn you i mild make V\ e
are not i oiitemplatiiig that light
now
Brand stressed the impor
lain e ot being atliliatetl w ilh
the I’ai 10 Membership in
the I’at 10 in addition to ad
vantages athletically also has
advantages at:ailemit ally lie
saitl 'I ’niversitics like pen
pie. are know n In the i ompam
tlun ket*p I would rather be as
sot iatetl with iierklev ami Man
lord than w ith Idaho Stale
I bis would he a nun h
worse imiversitv it we didn't
have collegiate athletics at this
level he said
Athletic I licet ini Hi!! Ilvrnc
was un.iv ailable for comment
The l hiiversitv nets about
Si r, to SJ i million from its .it
filiation with the I’.n 111 even
vear through gate receipts .uni
Rose Bowl profits. Brand said
II the l ’ mversit v dnipped out ol
the conference that monev
would be lost hut the i ost of
running the athletic depart
ment woulil remain the same
" This is vv here vve are, ' Hart
lelt said "We don't have main
options (Lifting the enrollment
i ap) is exai tlv i onlrarv to what
we want to he doing, hut there
are times when you have to
deal with the problem
"This is one ol those tones
he said
Dan Williams, l University
vice president for adniinislru
turn expressed com ern about
the situation
" I his reverses the enroll
ment trend." he said Io
solve one problem we are i teat
mg another It is a good solu
lion in that it shows that the
Hoard is interested, but it is pist
a beginning.'
"It's very interesting. Bland
sail! I've spent a vear telling
people about the problem with
the academic funding, hut I
didn't get nearly the attention
compared to when I talked
about athletics and that wor
ries me
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