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Letter to the Editor
David Kulczyk
Issue date: 4/22/09 Section: Opinion
Editor's note: The information about Sacramento State not producing a championship team in more than 60 years is incorrect. In the 2007-08 school year alone Sac State won conference championships in eight different sports and earned the Big Sky Conference All Womens Sports Trophy.
Before students are asked to vote for a fee increase so the administration and athletic department can continue financing their fantasy that Sacramento State will become a powerhouse of collegiate sports, why don't we ask the athletics department what have they done for the students lately?
In 60 odd years, Sac State has not produced a championship team or more than a handful of professional athletes.
The students don't care about the teams because the athletics department has not given the students any reason to care.
My exposure to Sac State sports is seeing brand new modern facilities for the athletes while I'm walking to a 1950s era unventilated concrete building and hoping that I can find a usable desk.
Personally, I am insulted that athletic prowess is rewarded at this university.
The athletes that are in my classes show up late, leave early and are disruptively stupid.
I was not given any special treatment when I transferred to Sac State from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It does not matter to the administration that I am the author of two California history books or that I have been published over a thousand times in a dozen publications, including over sixty articles in the Sacramento News and Review. I still have to take classes that have nothing to do with my major.
I find it appalling that athletes get a free ride because they play children's games that nobody cares about.
There is a old saying in California; "Your front yard is for your neighbors and your backyard is for yourself." If Sac State was an ordinary house, it would have a beautiful front yard, but the backyard would be hard dirt filled with junked cars.
It is time for Sac State to give up the dream of being a sports school and get back to the reality of what the majority of the students want: Smaller classes, cheaper tuition and less fees.
David Kulczyk
Before students are asked to vote for a fee increase so the administration and athletic department can continue financing their fantasy that Sacramento State will become a powerhouse of collegiate sports, why don't we ask the athletics department what have they done for the students lately?
In 60 odd years, Sac State has not produced a championship team or more than a handful of professional athletes.
The students don't care about the teams because the athletics department has not given the students any reason to care.
My exposure to Sac State sports is seeing brand new modern facilities for the athletes while I'm walking to a 1950s era unventilated concrete building and hoping that I can find a usable desk.
Personally, I am insulted that athletic prowess is rewarded at this university.
The athletes that are in my classes show up late, leave early and are disruptively stupid.
I was not given any special treatment when I transferred to Sac State from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It does not matter to the administration that I am the author of two California history books or that I have been published over a thousand times in a dozen publications, including over sixty articles in the Sacramento News and Review. I still have to take classes that have nothing to do with my major.
I find it appalling that athletes get a free ride because they play children's games that nobody cares about.
There is a old saying in California; "Your front yard is for your neighbors and your backyard is for yourself." If Sac State was an ordinary house, it would have a beautiful front yard, but the backyard would be hard dirt filled with junked cars.
It is time for Sac State to give up the dream of being a sports school and get back to the reality of what the majority of the students want: Smaller classes, cheaper tuition and less fees.
David Kulczyk
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David Kulczyk
posted 4/24/09 @ 9:34 AM PST
First of all I'd like to say that nobody from the Hornet contacted me to verify that I was the author of this letter. Second, my letter was edited harshly and third, I do not consider the eight different sports that won championships a big deal when the conference includes Bo Diddly State. (Continued…)
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