As media spanning the country have flocked toward the University’s football program, The New York Times highlighted the University’s budget problems amid its athletic success on Thursday.
New York Times writer Jeré Longman’s column, “A University’s Emphasis,” eyes the University’s budget roadblocks as it climbs toward academic success. Longman is a University alumnus and cites Executive Vice
Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton and English professor J. Gerald Kennedy.
“There is a bread-and-circuses aspect about football that detracts from more urgent concerns at L.S.U,” Longman wrote. “The faculty has gone three years without raises. State budget cuts have sliced through fat into muscle. An outcry would ensue if the football team was under-financed. But gutting of the foreign language department generates only a comparative