Editor,
What a great idea proposed by Donald H. Yee in the Albuquerque Journal on Aug. 23, “Privatizing College Football.” I might add all intercollegiate sports! In their place, intercollegiate sports could be offered to all students. Were this to happen, UNM could be the greatest university of the southwest. Ostensibly, UNM’s mission is education, but it has become a sports corporation supported by New Mexico taxpayers.
It is often said that these sports are self supporting. That’s even better. They could be Albuquerque’s premier professional teams, and UNM could return to its mission: education, not spectator sports.
I have another proposal that would make UNM one of the premier universities of not only New Mexico, but of our whole country. I propose that no one at UNM be paid a salary higher than the full professors. Wow, what an idea in an institution devoted to education. Pay the educators the highest salaries.
Rita Sjunnesson
Community member
