CSUN STUDENT LEADERS STAND FIRM.Byline: - Jill Painter Cal State Northridge athletic department officials and coaches are concerned about the student council's pledge to reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of money generated from a student fee referendum in 1995 that was designed to save football. The monies generated annually from the fee increase - $18 per student per year - is estimated at $480,000 and was directed for the football program. But the athletic department, which has an annual budget of $7.5 million, cut football nearly two months ago because of a growing budget deficit. ``They have to decide what they want to do,'' CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Dick Dull said. ``I would look at that as unfortunate. All that's going to do is adversely impact the 400 other student athletes. ``I'm not going to comment further than that. As far as I'm concerned, what they do is between them and the president (Jolene Koester Jolene Koester is the president of California State University, Northridge. The California State University Board of Trustees announced her appointment as president on November 16, 1999, and she took office as the fourth president of the University on July 1, 2000. ).'' CSUN student body president Tari Hunter wasn't backing down from her pledge last week that the money will be redistributed re·dis·trib·ute tr.v. re·dis·trib·ut·ed, re·dis·trib·ut·ing, re·dis·trib·utes To distribute again in a different way; reallocate. Adj. 1. , she's just not sure how much. Aside from honoring scholarships for football players who will stay at CSUN, Hunter said the rest of the money will be reallocated to other student activities. Hunter said the student task force to keep football told school officials months ago that they shouldn't count on the referendum money if football was dropped. Cross country and track coach Don Strametz, who's been at CSUN for 22 years, was disappointed with the news. ``Then the students will be taking away from programs who really deserve it - men's soccer, volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. , baseball, track, swimming, golf - none of those sports are fully funded,'' he said. The student government will meet with athletic department officials Friday to go over the annual budget. |
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