CSUN Sports Funds Could Be Better Used

* I am a student at Moorpark College and it has come to my attention in the past two months that CSUN is cutting some of their men’s athletic teams.

After the programs were cut, it left many people upset. Soccer was reinstated by private funds for a year, but other men’s sports were not so lucky.

After reading the letter sent to The Times by Joseph Braun, I came to find out that California state Sen. Cathie Wright is trying to seek $586,000 in order to bail out men’s baseball and volleyball. I do not feel this is right.

I have to agree with Braun’s idea of using this money for other educational purposes. And why is it that CSUN is keeping football instead of baseball or volleyball, two sports at which CSUN ranks among the nation’s best?

Why doesn’t CSUN consider dropping football and bringing back volleyball and baseball? I believe that with more help from the school the profits made from the baseball and volleyball teams could be used in such a way that Braun expressed.

I feel that CSUN does not need any help from the state but only to use its resources in a better way instead of doing what it is doing with its athletic programs.

BRIAN ALCALA

Simi Valley