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For the record, please note that the UW-Madison Athletic Department is self-supporting and does not utilize taxpayer dollars to support those salaries or any other part of its operations.
Our athletic department is fortunate to have a very loyal and generous fan base that provides financial support in a variety of ways. The bulk of those funds are from ticket sales and donations to athletics. Other income is generated from television and radio contracts, corporate sponsorship, concessions, merchandise sales and licensing.
Sweeney is senior associate athletic director at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Madison.
Athletics help UW be great
By KATE BRAUN | La Crosse
As a student of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a future taxpayer, I am responding to the letter attacking salaries in the UW Athletic Department.
During the 2004-05 school year, Badger athletics generated $50,517,274 in revenue. Athletic expenses totaled only $49,940,910, leaving a profit of $576,373. These figures do not include the $17.7 million gifted to the UW Athletic Department.
The UW-Madison Athletic Department is a self-sufficient entity on campus. It makes community service a goal and gives a source of pride to the students and the state, without costing taxpayers a single dollar.
UW-Madison is a great university, and athletics only contribute to its greatness. I may not be an athlete, but I’m still proud to be a Badger.
Oppose petition to withdraw troops
By DAVID JARZEMSKI | La Crosse
Why is the La Crosse Coalition for Peace and Justice allowing a group in their name to make fools of themselves by bringing a petition to the La Crosse Common Council that would have La Crosse citizens vote on whether troops should be withdrawn from Iraq? This is no more germane to the council’s business or to local voters’ interests than a vote on whether our soldiers should wear boxers or briefs.
I therefore ask that common sense rear its beautiful head, and the petition be withdrawn posthaste. And that the city counsel use parliamentary procedures to rule such a petition moot. If it does come before the voters, I urge a boycott of said question on the ballot.
What this embarrassing spectacle is demonstrably showing, is precisely why Republicans have another man in the White House and why they are now the majority party in the country. Good old-fashioned common sense is always appreciated by us voters.
Don’t waste city time on petition
By FREDERICK CAYA | La Crosse
I think I’ll start a petition. I don’t want snow in La Crosse anymore. It makes driving dangerous. People get injuries, and snow cancels school and events. Why should I have to work that hard to keep the city’s sidewalk in front of my house clear? Also, it makes us unpopular. People won’t visit our great city in the winter, and many people leave — all because of snow.
I know there are a lot of people who don’t hate snow and even think that it’s necessary. I bet, however, I could find, say, 2,400 people who don’t like snow and would like to see no snow in La Crosse.
The only thing that keeps me from starting this petition is this: I just don’t know if I want to waste the city’s resources on council action or a referendum on something the city really has no control or jurisdiction over.
Evolution requires faith
By W.L. KEELING | Hillsboro, Wis.
The controversy between religion and evolution comes down to one specific issue. Should either one be taught as science in the classroom? As for religion, no Christian I have ever met would claim that belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing being who created this universe and all there is therein, is scientific. In fact, any such claim would be a direct contradiction of the Holy Scripture, which states most emphatically that it must be taken on faith. It cannot be proved; it is not science. That does not mean it is not true.
When you try to throw it out, you run into the problem of prophecy — events that were predicted hundreds of years before they came about came about exactly as predicted. Those include the birth and death of Jesus Christ, and his resurrection after three days in the grave. This is not proof. It cannot be tested; it isn’t science.
Now, as for evolution, can it be tested? Let us look at some scientific facts: Eons of years ago, something went bang! What was it, how big was it, what made it go bang, we don’t know. Is this science? We are told that material from this bang is still going out and is now millions of light years from the point of explosion.
According to the evolutionists, this all came about by happenstance. If you believe this, you really got faith, because it surely ain’t science.
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