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Hawaii Requests $6M In State Funding For Financially Struggling Athletic Department

Univ. of Hawaii leaders on Thursday asked state lawmakers for $6M over the next two years "to help the financially struggling university athletic department try to balance its books," according to Keoki Kerr of Honolulu-based KHNL-NBC. UH athletics officials predict a $3.5M deficit this year "at a department that has been in the red 12 of the last 15 years." UH interim Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman said, "We do need additional support for athletics." UH asked lawmakers for two years' worth of two mandatory expenses: $3.4M "for the gender equity costs of women's sports" and $2.6M "to help cover the travel costs of its opponents, as required in its agreements with the two athletic conferences to which UH belongs." Hawaii State Rep. Matthew Lopresti "took issue with the high costs of travel subsidies." He said, "The cost seems to be really outrageous when you consider the sorts of things that are under funded at the university throughout the system." But outgoing UH AD Ben Jay said that the school "has no choice, because the conferences wouldn't allow UH to join them without covering their travel costs to Hawaii" (HAWAIINEWSNOW.com, 12/18).

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