Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera

[Chris J. Durden]

The point is very little if any of the money earned (extorted?) on football
ever trickles down to be sqandered on academics.
  At one university I know well, a stadium and a museum were built in 1938
following the state centennial celebration. The stadium has been rebuilt
and enlarged at least 3 times since. The museum remains only one third
built. One year the bill for Astroturf was sent by mistake to the museum.
The bill was more than the operating budget of the museum.
Shame! Shame! Shame!
...........Chris Durden



At 05:36  24/10/00 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/23/00 8:41:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>gatrelle at tils-ttr.org writes:
>
><<  On another matter, It should be of concern to all of us that the
> Bulletin of the Allyn Museum has not been put out for three years. I heard
> from The Top that the U. of Florida, which now controls the Allyn Museum,
> has cut off funding for the Bulletin. This is outrageous. The U. of F
> absolutely spends more in one year on ONE football players uniforms, travel,
> etc. than a years worth of the Bulletin issues!! For a multi-million dollar
> University to cut off such a worth while scientific publication smacks of
> nothing but internal politics. >>
>
>The reason that universities justify spending money on football is that 
>football brings in huge bucks. When was the last time that you saw a leps 
>program on Pay For View? While Joe Six Pack sits on the couch damaging his 
>brain he could be out with his son or daughter doing something useful like 
>setting up butterfly habitats or taking the kids to a museum. Habitats and 
>museums are not sexy.
>
>Remember sex sells and it might even get your thesis on Pay For View!
>
>Steve
>
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