At UC Berkeley, where academic departments are not allowed to run deficits, cost-cutting looks like this: 63 chronic roof leaks around campus, once-a-month garbage collection, some staff paychecks hovering near the poverty line and faculty phone lines yanked. Berkeley’s athletic department has no such deficit prohibition. Even as its $70 million budget soared by 61 percent during the recession, it still managed to spend more than it had.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 13th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.