So What’s the Problem With Donating Money for Those Good Seats?

I read with absolute amazement the terrible “blow� to longtime UCLA basketball fans because they were requested to put their money where there mouth was (July 4). While I could understand one’s objection to paying $750 to the UCLA athletic department to fund the athletic machine, there is an alternative. Individuals may make a gift of $1,500 to Chancellor’s Associates, which provides significant academic support to the institution that the various objectors purportedly love so much.

I simply do not understand why it is “very cold, shabby treatment of alumni who have supported them for years.� What support? Is the support simply attending the basketball games? If these are truly alumni who are interested in the university and/or the athletic program, they certainly are capable of making some contribution to the athletic program, or more specifically to the academic side of the university that they love so much, in order to have better seats.

ALLAN B. CUTTROW

Los Angeles