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The Academic Senate at Cal-Berkeley met to discuss the nearly $6 million budget shortfall in the athletic department. It wasn't pretty. Read more here.

Senior Natalie LaRochelle, a former member of the women’s swim team, even broke down in tears, struggling to keep her composure as she sought to explain the importance of intercollegiate sports and pleaded for continued support.

In the end, though, Berkeley’s Academic Senate on Thursday voted 91-68 to recommend that the chancellor take “immediate action” to restore Intercollegiate Athletics to “its intended self-supporting basis,” including cutting off campus subsidies and student-registration fees to the department as soon as permitted by existing contract constraints.

Athletic Director Sandy Barbour doesn't seem to get it.

Barbour said she was "disappointed" the resolution passed, but noted there were just "91 faculty members who voted for it out of 1,500," most of whom she believes are supportive of Cal sports and student-athletes. "I'm committed to working with this campus, working with our faculty, to have a program that is large and robust and successful, and one that is financially responsible," she said. "That hasn't changed from 20 minutes ago to now."

True, only 91 of 1,500 voted for the resolution.

Maybe she didn't notice, but only 68 of those 1,500 voted against it...

The Rice women won big in the first meet in their new facility. New Orleans defeated Incarnate Word in the men's meet.

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Western Michigan is considering reviving a couple of dropped men's programs. Track (indoor & outdoor) and cross country got the axe a few years back. Read more here.

A letter seeking pledges and co-signed by WMU athletics director Kathy Beauregard and former Broncos track coach George Dales was sent, after a go-ahead from current WMU President John Dunn, to “Men’s Track and Cross Country Alumni and Friends.”

Unfortunately, another wrestling program is in danger of being cut. Cal State Fullerton is considering pulling the rug/matt out from under their grapplers. Read more here.

About 20 years ago, there were more than 440 wrestling programs in the nation, including 36 four-year schools and 81 junior colleges in California. Now, wrestling in California is down to 5 four-year schools and 20 junior colleges.

Who's writing your online encyclopedia? Apparently, it's the guys who need an occasional break from their 20-hour gaming binges. Read more here.

But in Wales’s own words, Wikipedians are “80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, around 70 percent under the age of 30.” This homogeneity, too, may explain the persistence of certain knowledge gaps.

Knowledge gaps? What, they're saying those young fellers don't know it all???

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