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North Idaho Colleges' Student Newspaper • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Athletic Budget Committee discusses funding options by J oOJJ thon Ha) Nt11s Editor The NIC Athletic Budget Review Commiuec is ancmpting co decide the furure of a1hletics 01 NIC. Toe group i, made up of NIC fncuhy and Coeur d'Alene community members who are mtcrestcd m the fu1urc of athletic funding. At the Oct. lO meeting the commiucc discus~d four op11ons for recomcndntioru; to the Board of Trustees. One of the op1ions included addressing the gap m money be1ween lhe grant-in-aid awarded 10 othlctic ~tudenis and non-a1hlc1ic s1udents. Another op1io11 wus the possibili1y of plat'mg :i pcrcenroge budget cap on 1hc athletic department tha1 would ,uy tlrn1 athletics could only use a ccnoin percent of the 101al NIC budge1 each year. Science m~truc1or, Lloyd Mnrsh proposed 1h01 ,1udcn1, should be surveyed periodically 10 find out their opmions on a1hlc1ic!> nt NIC. II wns also proposed that mcmbe~ of 1hc community should be ~C\cyed 10 lind out how they feel nbou1 the athletic program~. A1hle11c Director Jim Headley ~aid 1ha1 he though1 lhe revitw hud been valuable. bu1 he \\Ouldn'1 \ugge~t having a cittzcn comnuucc n:vie"' board for every depanmem on campus. At 1he Oct. 3 mee11ng of 1hc commiuec Pre,ident Bob Bennett ,poke on the amou111 of money thni 1hc a1hktic budget ac1ually receive~. and gave his opinion on 1hc future of 1he budget. .. Benne11 began by describing 1he amount of money 1n 1he budget. I-le ~a,d 1ha1 al1hough the a1hle11c opcra11ng budgc1 is $604.535: after ~1udent fee\. gale receipts and s101e funds are tnken away, 1here is only $328.506 1h31 comes out of 1hc operating budgc1 of NIC. Benne11 said that ir all a1hle1ic program~ were cu1 at NIC. the $328.506 would only be nble 10 go 10 educa1ional programs because vocational program\ ore funded by the stale. '"I believe !hat alhlctic~ ore inherently pnn of lhc college experience,'" Bennett said. Although athleucs arc importan1, Benneu said tha1ii could be reviewed. "NIC has a good program. but no program is too good to 1ake a look at." Benneu said. Headley staled that there hns never been n 1imc mNIC a1hlcucs that local athletes haven't had n chance 10 ploy. Hcadlcy's statement wns in response 10 some commiucc members who ques1ioned whe1hcr or no1local a1hle1es were being given a foir chance 10 compete at NlC. 0
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