I am a CAL athletics fan and supporter, and a season ticket holder for basketball and football for over 40 years. I have recruited athletes for several sports, and have served as faculty chair of the Athletic Study Center, on a search committee for an athletic director, and on the building committee for Haas Pavilion. In my 40 years of teaching among my best students were athletes.
Yet I keep asking myself, what would compel Cal’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics to allow elite athletes to train in an unsafe facility, or continue to tolerate mediocre facilities for female athletics while they ... More >
