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Discuss “Council of athletes raises campus interest in sports”

There are few schools like Carnegie Mellon when you find more people in computer clusters than the football stadium on Saturday afternoons. And while that may get the academic heads smiling, it reflects the general apathy with which the school views its sports. It has denied students their athletics, and athletes their fans.

To counteract the often neglected state of CMU sports, new athletic director Susan Bassett organized the school?s first ever Student-Athlete Advisory Council. Bassett designed the SAAC? which meets every two weeks and is comprised of two members from each varsity team? to improve the general state of varsity athletics. One area of particular emphasis was raising the awareness and attendance at varsity events.

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