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A joint faculty-alumni committee charged with investigating complaints about athletic budgets (and deficits) at the University of California at Berkeley has confirmed many of them. An "explosion of controllable and semi-controllable costs" in athletics, the committee's report says, "makes it clear that intercollegiate athletics has been playing by a very different set of budgetary rules from the rest of the campus." The report contrasts staffing cuts that have had severe impact on academics with the growth in staffing and program spending in athletics. "The culture of what has appeared to be unconstrained spending must change," the report says. The report also notes many contributions from athletics -- and from a big-time athletics program -- for Berkeley, but calls for the elimination of current budget patterns.
