How Poor Students Subsidize Unworthy College Sports
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June 18 (Bloomberg) -- As parents and students struggle tokeep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdensof debt, universities are being challenged to justify theballooning athletic fees they tack on to the bill.
In the 2010-11 academic year, the 227 public institutionsin Division 1 of the National Collegiate Athletic Associationcollected more than $2 billion in athletic fees from theirstudents -- or an average of more than $500 per enrollee --according to research by Jeff Smith at the University of SouthCarolina Upstate.