Student Log-in
Student Log-in
by Teddy Cahill
edited in part by Sarah Boswell
Ball State University
The sun shone brightly on the unseasonably warm fall afternoon. If it weren't for the leaves' changing colors, the day could have been plucked out of June, not October. On what might have been the last nice Saturday for months in Muncie, surely there would be plenty of fans in Scheumann Stadium to cheer on Ball State against Central Michigan. The Cardinals had a winning record and were in the hunt for a conference championship and a bowl game.
by Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis
For the past three years, The University of Memphis' football team has lost more money than any other sport.
By UNL senior staff, Kiah Haslett
Every year, the senior staff at University of Nebraska-Lincoln pick a topic to explore various ways for the student body as a special project. They have a budget for travel and special publication. This year, the staff picked UNL's move to the Big Ten and the school's lack of preparation for that move.
Haslett was a head editor on the project, and she helped craft story ideas and edit from start to finish. She also wrote one of the stories.
By Jayme Fraser
Author's note: The same day the Montana Kaimin ran a story telling the student body about an effort to increase a fee without any student input, the school discovered a long-standing policy that mandates they do just that. This is the short article about the reversal.
By Jayme Fraser
A note from the author: In this story, I explore the reasons why the University of Montana is skipping a student body vote on a proposed increase to the athletic fee. Students voted down a similar proposal just one year earlier. The piece also shows how the university is cornered into paying for athletics Title IX compliance with student money whether it's a fee increase or a tuition increase because of an unhealthy athletics budget and the uncompromising nature of complying with Title IX.
By Timothy Sandoval
Student activity fees that support the Sacramento State athletics program have become its largest source of revenue, outpacing dwindling direct and indirect university support.
Student activity fee revenue made up $4.5 million, or 29 percent of total athletics revenue.
By Nicholas Harrison
With the Sooners’ win in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, OU football coach Bob Stoops earned more than $4.5 million this year — making him the third-highest paid football coach in the NCAA.
By Kimberlee Kruesi, Katie Browning, Amy Smith, and Nathan Scharn
Recent cuts to the athletic department at Point Loma Nazarene University were an effort to comply with an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights following a grievance filed against PLNU regarding Title IX compliance.
By Tim Seeman
Marquette University spent $10.3 million on men's basketball during the 2008-2009 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis database. The program is one of only two in the nation that surpassed the $10 million plateau in that time frame.
