Athletics fee, tutoring unfair to academics

As an alumnus of the IU School of Music, I am furious that the School of Music is being forced to pay a portion of the cost of academically advising and tutoring athletics department students. This is an insult to Dean Gwyn Richards and the music school administration that overcame their own deficit without accessing a school-wide "music fee" or by requiring the entire university to pay for music student advising.\nI realize that athletes spend a lot of hours in practice and at games. However, IU's president should follow music students for a day to see how many hours they spend practicing and performing. I also realize that there are tremendous physical requirements for athletes, but the president should spend a day with a School of Music ballet dancer to see some real physical demands. The president says this is about "fairness". It is instead about giving preferential treatment to athletics over academics.\nPerhaps the School of Music should hand the athletics department a huge bill for the Marching Hundred and for the Basketball Pep Band. After all, the athletics department is not the only department that contributes to the "University Experience"!