Intramurals proposes $13,000 increase

The Department of Campus Life has begun a process to raise the budget for the funding of the intramural program.
Thomas Miles, director of campus life, has sent a proposal to the university to have the student activity fee to be raised by $5 dollars which Miles believes would raise the budget for the intramural program from its current state of $37,000 to $50,000. The proposal is currently at Dr. Dorothy Leland’s desk.
“It’s now in the President’s hands and she will be sending it to the Board of Regents,” Miles said.
One of the reasons that Miles is asking for the budget to be raised is to meet the expansions of the intramural program.  An example is this year’s flag football intramural program which included 77 teams in all divisions of the program. That is an increase from the 52 teams of last year’s flag football program.
With more students participating in intramural sports, the Campus Life department has had to hire extra students to help officiate all of the intramural games and the department feels that these officials are not being paid sufficiently.
“The increase in intramural/recreational sports is primarily to support the salaries for intramural sports officials (students,)” Miles said.
The proposal has gotten support from Joel Sanderson, coordinator of intramural and recreational sports.  Sanderson said that with the tight budget, he had to build soccer goals that were $300 and he believes that these goals will only be sufficient for this season.
“I feel we are giving the students a pretty good product, but with an increase in funding, we would be giving them a great program,” Sanderson said.
If the proposal is approved, Sanderson says that the Campus Life department would purchase better equipment for intramural sports and would be able to provide more intramural events, including events on the weekends.
“The ultimate impact (of an increased budget) is that students would have a better environment to play in and more opportunities to participate,” said Sanderson.

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