FRIDAY VOLUME 89 JANUARY 30, ISSUE 74 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY • DALLAS, TEXAS • SMUDAILYCAMPUS.COM Grocery cards aid SMU athletics By Ariana Farris goes to SMU. athletic department's $30,000 went to Contributing Writer The cards provide the users with the general budget. The department
[email protected] the same discounts as the regular doesn't think of the money as coming Kroger Plus cards, but instead of from a certain source. With approximately 2,400 SMU Kroger keeping the money, it is given "Nothing has been that specific," TODAY affiliated people using the Kroger Plus to SMU. Sutton said High 48, Low 36 Stampede Savings card, the program Once this money reaches SMU, the When the program began,students TOMORROW brings in approximately $60,000 an athletic department gets a 50 percent were given temporary cards at football High 64, Low 40 nually, according to the SMU athletic cut while the alumni association games, but many students have since department and SMU get one-fourth of the total lost these cards. Now, Kroger has The athletic department teamed up profit printed up a separate card just for with Kroger grocery stores in an effort "We would have liked to have kept SMU. WHAT'S insint. to raise more money in the Fall 2002. 100 percent, but its better for the uni "I've been meaning to get a new The Kroger Plus Stampede Savings versity and alumni if we split it," said card, but I just don't know where to program introduced a new club card Shawn Hilbron, sales and marketing find one," sophomore Rebecca McK- PAGE TWO to participating students, parents and representative for SMU athletics.