"Here’s how you fight the economic madness devouring our civilization. You take away six burgers and a couple of pizzas."

That's Jim McCabe's grabber of a lede. Sadly, burgers and slices are what it boiled down to for MIT's golf expenditures, yet the sport was still dropped. The story gets more infuriating when you hear the details shared by McCabe:

Now Burke, nor any of his players are ignorant to the world upon us. “We understand cuts have to be made, that you have to make budgets,” said Nick Swenson, a freshman from Yorktown, Va.

“But we’re not an expensive sport,” said Ted Keith, a senior from Acton, Mass. “We’re $30,000 a year.”

Swenson and Keith organized teammates for a meeting with athletic director Julie Soriero, but if they went there Monday night with any degree of optimism, it was quickly deflated.

Soriero told the players their plan to fund their own team with fund-raising efforts was unacceptable, that to keep golf as a varsity sport they would have to raise a $3 million endowment.

The story goes on to look at the sheer absurdity of a $3 million endowment. After that infurates you and you feel the need to vent, here's an MIT athletic department feedback page.