April 30, 2004

At Some Colleges, Students Tax Themselves to Pay for Sports

By WELCH SUGGS

As most college administrators have discovered, sports are not getting any cheaper. As a result, more institutions are turning to a captive audience to raise money: students.

And not just the students participating in sports. Students on several campuses, including four in the past three weeks, have voted to levy mandatory fees on themselves to help pay for athletics departments.

The practice is not uncommon at large universities in Division I-A of the National Collegiate

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