EMU Student Project: Report On Student Athletes Affected By Recent Budget Cuts - ALICIA SCHMIDT, WEMU

Remembering back to this past March, most people were talking about a major announcement made by the athletics department at Eastern Michigan University. Students, staff, and the public were told through emails and a news release that, on March 20th, four athletic teams were to be cut as part of a budget reconstruction. As many of you heard numerous times, there was protests and fundraising that strived to bring the athletic teams back. However, it was not in the cards for the now-former athletes at Eastern. After the announcement that the teams were not to be reinstated, the athletes had a very difficult decision to make--staying or leaving Eastern, and what that would mean to them as students and as athletes. http://www.wemu.org/post/emu-student-project-report-student-athletes-affected-recent-budget-cuts