> Name: *************
> E-mail: *************
> Anonymous: Yes
> Post: Yes
> State: Texas
> County: 
> District: Sam Houston State University

> Story:

> With the rise of "local" as opposed to "state" funding of higher

> education in Texas, wide latitude has been assumed by individual

> institutions' administrations. As a result, huge amounts of

> monies which are paid for "specific" purposes by students as

> "fees" end up as a slush fund which is applied (particularly) to

> intercollegiate athletics all out of proportion to their role or

> appropriateness to the school involved. These irregularities are

> so well hidden that the second-class auditors from the state

> government cannot find the abuses.

>

> Academic programs have suffered under this so severely that a

> sort of fatigue hangs over the entire academic community,

> Further, the board of trustees is so clueless that they have even

> allowed a new set of fees to be added with no oversight.