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$18 mil
Athletic departn
By TIGE WATTS
Managing/News Editor
USC students pay $16 per
semester to pay off the debt of Hi -W
Williams-Brice Stadium, accord- IMf
ing to athletic department officials.
King Dixon, USC's athletic
director, said ttie money from
every full-time undergraduate students
will decrease the debt of the I
stadium by $1 million.
Dixon also said the athletic !
department's 1991-92 budget of I
about $18 million was self-supported,
with no money coming I
from tax dollars.
"Contrary to what a lot of people
think, we do not get any money
from legislature," Dixon said. "W<
"The athletic department does not to gi\
get one dime of the money that is admil
appropriated to the university. The raiS6.
majority of our funds come from
donations from the Gamecock
Club," Dixon said. ?-?
The Gamecock Club, however, whjcil.
brings in over $6.3 million, one- y111
third of the total budget, for the M Dixc
athletic .department. The remaining J
$12 million is brought in by ticket you ha
sales, student fees and miscella- bal1 01
neous contracts, like radio and TV. what 1
Dixon's department was able to lic^et 5
turn a profit for the past two years ^ hal
after years of running a deficit season.
He said the money from the ^or
surplus went to pay raises. "We al
were in a position to give our in 1001
coaches and administration a ,on
slight raise." ^ains
Despite having a surplus of
$370,579 this past year, athletic Pated
department officials cut programs
from their budget to add an indoor
track program, claiming they fund 111
didn't have enough money to fund Pa^ ou
all of the programs. prograi
Department officials scrapped
their plan to cut the programs, scholai
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