Quote Originally Posted by FargoBison View Post
I think the number was $2.8 million this year.

NDSU's total subsidy(school funds + student fees) is 43.16%. Only 6.32% of that is student fees.

Those numbers are from 2012 btw. The Booster club raised $2.6 million that year.
If true, then I'm pleasantly surprised! By including the source of your numbers, you would remove any suspicion of mine. But I suspect you're correct based on the precision.

I don't like that school funds are spent on athletics. That means tax dollars and tuition dollars, which are meant to fund the school, are ending up in the athletic department coffers. That's wrong on principle, for me. Student fees should be paying 100% of the remaining costs that the athletic department can't cover from their own revenue streams. Athletics is a purely extra-curricular enterprise, that the students must desire to have and therefore support.