To the editor:
Comments by purchasers of licenses for "scholarship suites" at the football stadium refer to "the benefit and betterment of the university," (Justin Anderson) and "an investment in the university and the athletics department as a whole" (Doug Compton). In fact, only after five years, when construction costs are paid off, will money paid for those leases go to scholarships, and when it does, the scholarships will go to student athletes.
In fact, the Athletic Corporation is a separate entity and money donated to them stays in their budget, benefiting that particular and separate part of the unviersity. It doesn't buy books for Watson Library, office space for faculty and graduate teaching assistants crammed (sometimes six or seven in one room) into windowless offices in Wescoe Hall, or more phone lines for better dial-in access to the KU computer system. I don't begrudge the Athletic Corporation their nice, new facilities, but I do resent their raising funds by giving donors the impression that their dollars contribute to the quality of academic life for the rest of us.
William M. Tsutsui,
Lawrence.
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