End of the Roll
Timing hurts sports travel budget

On April 10, the National Highway Transportation Safety Board reported 15-passenger vans are three times as likely to roll over with 10 or more passengers.

TCU owns nine of these vans, and as of April 10 the administration prohibited the use of these vehicles by any campus organization.

Good for the administration.

Good for the university.

The only problem is that the athletic budget for next semester was already formulated before the report came out.

Now there is not enough money for the teams that might use these vans to charter buses for road trips.

For the safety of students, the university made the right decision. However, further reports must be examined before final budget adjustments are implemented.

For the sake of sports at TCU, it better be before the start of next season.

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